Crazy how he manipulated people into fucking kids like that.
YSK that Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex criminal. He was a world class manipulator. He knew how to play a fundamentally rotten business culture better than anyone in New York
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Luniio@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
khannie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s probably easier than you think. First you find billionaires. That’s it.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah this piece smells like calculated revisionism. Clearly well-researched, but amazingly (!) distances him from all the right players, and does its best to waft away any Israeli connection as purely incidental.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
IMO he’s the lead grasshopper that worked with politicians to keep the working class suppressed through economics and propaganda/story telling.
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a very long article I read a while ago. Basically says everyone is dumb and you’re relatively smart if you flatter everyone.
motherjones.com/…/i-called-everyone-in-jeffrey-ep…
AI summary below:
I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book (Mother Jones, Oct 2020 Highlights from the article: The “Pseudo-Intellectual” Trap: The journalist notes that many of the world’s most “brilliant” people—scientists, politicians, and billionaires—were lured in by Epstein simply because they were flattered.
The “Mediocrity” of the Elite: The article reinforces the idea that Epstein wasn’t a mastermind so much as a “social climber” who realized that rich people are often bored and looking for the next “smart” person to validate them, making them remarkably easy targets.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Looks like he also was a Mossad agent
glitching@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
very cool writeup. I’ve tried on a couple occasions to get a grip on how fucko made all that money. and every time, including wikipedia, it was like met some folks, bear sterns, clients, consulting, insulting, yadda, yadda, he a billionaire… like holup, I’m doing some tallying here, what was the middle part…?
way easier to grasp when a) it ain’t actually tres comas, let alone a multiple of that and b) it’s just a series of grifts, swindles, and embezzlements of one not really that savvy confidence man.
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I don’t like this title one bit nor the angle this story is using.
Because it turns his own clients and partners into his victims.
Elting@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Also because its become exceedingly clear the guy was a bumbling dumbass who made it by luck. Some people out there would really like you to believe we live in a meritocracy.
deafboy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We still don’t know his true clients (people he worked for). These guys were just his marks.
We had a similar guy where I come from. He was actively seeking connections with politicians and businessmen, acting as their friend, while recording every online and offline conversation to be used for extortion in the future.
He, and the prostitute he was hiring to do his bidding, made the mistake of getting directly involved in the murder of a journalist, so she ended up in prison for 25 years, and I haven’t heard anything about him ever since.