The Sacklers will get to keep billions

What’s a little mass-murder between friends?

Cory Doctorow

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The columnated facade of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery; behind the columns, the front of the gallery has been replaced with a mosaic of $100 bills and Oxycontin pills. Image: Geographer (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serpentine_Sackler_Gallery.jpg CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

The Sacklers engaged in an intergenerational, half-century program of drug-pushing; starting by creating the market for benzos and culminating in creating the opioid epidemic. They made a vast fortune off the misery they created and today they’re richer than the Rockefellers.

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