The Ruling Class Thinks Everything is Disposable (Including the Planet)
Hi hi,
This month, I decided to dive into the muck that is the Epstein files. I held off researching/writing about him for a while, because I felt like I didn’t have much to say that hadn’t already been said, and it was such a heavy topic, but after reading more and more, I felt like there was something that was missing in a lot of the mainstream analysis of Epstein. The gist of what I was hearing and reading was that Epstein was an aberration in the world of capitalist elites. He was uniquely terrible in the way he used and abused those around him. To me, a person who reads about how capitalists use and abuse people and the planet to accumulate more and more profits, Epstein seems like a run-of-the-mill ruling class man existing under patriarchal capitalism. So, I made a video sharing my thoughts. You can find it below. Let me know your thoughts.
As always, you can find three quotes and three links I found useful during my research process.
Three Quotes:
“Rung by rung, Epstein climbed a social and financial ladder, often using young women as a potent form of currency. His girlfriends, lovers and even exes helped elevate his status inside a bank, got him hired to track down missing assets and gained him entree to prestigious organizations. And deliberately or not, some of them enabled him as he constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.”
— The New York Times
“Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. The earth’s forest fire. Potentially a good thing for the species.”
— Jeffrey Epstein
“I don’t want [Bill Gates] to ask me to support his African causes…He is brilliant and so is Warren [Buffett], can’t they come up with a better foundation structure and goal, then [sic] to make the ludicrous statement that every life is equal.
— Jeffrey Epstein
Three Links:
The Epstein Network (Epstein Mapped)
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (New Yotk Times)
'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism (Fast Company)
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Hope you have a great day,
In solidarity,
Charlie