I’m Guessing Zero Time
by tristero
The executives of the corporations that created the opioid epidemic are nothing less than the real life analogs of Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale.
Aside from the fact that Bell and Barksdale were fictional drug dealers, — and these guys actually live and breathe and actually made obscenely large fortunes— there are, two additional differences:
1. They’re white.
2. They will never see the inside of a prison
Funny how that works.
UPDATE: Yes, I know that the drug dealers in The Wire were based on real people. But the mostly anonymous pushers at Mallinckrodt, Walmart, CVS, and Rite Aid? They aren’t based on real people. They are real people. And they’re going to get away with it.