It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The Economy" in the sense of a kind of mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all the rest of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper.
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I've said this before: Those dickhead business types in "Resident Evil", who destroy the world through greed & negligence & then just keep having board meetings in their bunkers & discuss their next insane projects?
Yeah, real-life billionaires are exactly like that, except way stupider. You can't even shame them by pointing it out - they think it's cool & wish they were sunglasses-inside-guy at the head of the table.
