Epstein, in addition to being a pedophile, is one bizarre man. He believes in eugenics, and opposes universal health care because he thinks poor people needed to die to prevent overpopulation. And it's pretty obvious that he thought very highly of himself, probably through him being rich. I bet his having gotten away with child rape for decades also went to his head. He wants to use cryonics to live forever:
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Once, at a dinner at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Mr. Lanier said he talked to a scientist who told him that Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe. Mr. Lanier said the scientist identified herself as working at NASA, but he did not remember her name.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/busi ... enics.htmlThis I think touches on the issue of income inequality, money in politics, and prosperity theology in the US: The belief that those who are rich deserve it, are better than people who aren't rich, and know better what to do with all of their money than anybody else. This gives a pretty glaring example of someone where this is not the case. This guy is basically throwing his money at all sorts of BS research, and likely using his money to help screw up our politics in service of eugenic views like his. He's another rich person who has so much money he doesn't even really know what to do with it and except bury it in weird crap, and Trump helped him along with his tax cuts. So money that could have gone into health care or infrastructure went to Epstein instead.
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