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> slave morality

I think if you're saying: "These billionaires are bad because they do bad things, and being so rich makes their capacity for harm much worse."

That's not slave morality, at least not necessarily, because the "doing bad things" can probably be expressed using normal classic values. It becomes slave morality when you abbreviate the above to: "These billionaires are bad because it's bad for anybody to be so rich."

by trinsic26 hours ago|

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Yeah but I don't think this is being said here.

Are you just trying make a point outside of what is being said? I'm hearing people saying the first part in many of these responses.

by mikkupikku5 hours ago|

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I'm responding to troosevelts question, not accusing anybody in particular of one or the other. I've seen plenty of both on the internet, but in general I don't think it's slave morality unless somebody is saying that having so much money is intrinsically evil, that to have gotten that much money is wrong in itself, regardless of what the individual actually did or is doing.

by shevy-java7 hours ago|

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> I suspect the vast majority of people who interacted with Epstein did it just to make connections and they made excuses, eg, Gates.

I am not sure about that.

Sex may have played a factor in this. I use the word "may", as I don't know for certain, but I don't buy into the "just to make connections". The superrich don't really need to "make connections" on an island where underage girls party.

by jacquesm7 hours ago|

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> on an island where underage girls party

on an island where they traffic underage girls and rape them.

by trinsic26 hours ago|

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Thank you for making that clarification. It seems like the parent was trying to normalize the "underage" and "party" part.

by Sohcahtoa822 hours ago|

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> an island where underage girls party.

What an absolutely gross mischaracterization of what happens there.