@pluralistic Well, you would have heard the advice, "Whenever you see 'the economy' mentioned, substitute 'rich people's yachts'."
Even more true than we thought.
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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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/09/sloppy-steve/#mckinley-fanfic-panic
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@pluralistic Well, you would have heard the advice, "Whenever you see 'the economy' mentioned, substitute 'rich people's yachts'."
Even more true than we thought.
Here鈥檚 an article that digs in a little deeper on what @pluralistic
is calling the #EpsteinClass:
https://the.ink/p/its-so-much-bigger-than-epstein
