Excellent reporting on the finances of the elite. I’m glad congress is focusing on this and not just the sex exploitation because it is money and power that enables those exploits.
I appreciate the effort at analysis of Epstein yet find the lauding of philanthropy troubling as it seems to prop up and legitimize the very system that produces the inequities the philanthropy ostensibly seeks to ameliorate. So individuals are enriched via extraction and exploitation and then empowered to give or not as they see fit to address the very exploitation that was central to their wealth while retaining the power to decide who and what is worthy of funding? Yuck. Also, you gloss over the role of systemic racism and misogyny when characterizing the wealthy as “brilliant innovators. “ To discuss the wealthy without naming the conditions by which they were able to amass their fortune seems problematic when attempting to analyze Epstein. Given you both seem familiar with the privileged circles frequented by Epstein, is it possible that you have not critiqued these systems that create environmental and human harms and allowed Epstein to flourish?
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Excellent reporting on the finances of the elite. I’m glad congress is focusing on this and not just the sex exploitation because it is money and power that enables those exploits.
I appreciate the effort at analysis of Epstein yet find the lauding of philanthropy troubling as it seems to prop up and legitimize the very system that produces the inequities the philanthropy ostensibly seeks to ameliorate. So individuals are enriched via extraction and exploitation and then empowered to give or not as they see fit to address the very exploitation that was central to their wealth while retaining the power to decide who and what is worthy of funding? Yuck. Also, you gloss over the role of systemic racism and misogyny when characterizing the wealthy as “brilliant innovators. “ To discuss the wealthy without naming the conditions by which they were able to amass their fortune seems problematic when attempting to analyze Epstein. Given you both seem familiar with the privileged circles frequented by Epstein, is it possible that you have not critiqued these systems that create environmental and human harms and allowed Epstein to flourish?