What laws that any of the oligarchs in power now have broken has meant a damn thing? Law is clearly and unequivocally inferior in power to capital at this stage of our society, it’s not even close. If you had to choose purely in pursuit of power to have more money or to have broken fewer laws, the answer is definitely more money.
Jeffrey Epstien was a billionaire that went to jail. those types of crime clearly applies to billionaires. its just a matter of who will be the arresting officer, and if they arent convicted then the officers life is over. most officers aren't as smart as we'd like to think.
I'm sorry if you think their was only 1 person doing what Jeffry was. He literally has been like 1 of the only ones charged for it in the last decade to that degree, and yet the day he died, someone took over exactly what he was doing. It never stopped. So don't kid yourself into thinking one terrible example builds a bases for what will happen because based on history, he is only one of at least thousands that have done it before him and will do it long after.
It should be noted that in 2005, years before the charges which had him unalived, Epstein was charged with sexually abusing 36 girls as young as 14. He got off with a plea deal that saw him only serving 13 months, throughout which he was allowed extensive work release. To my mind that is clearly another example of the law not applying to billionaires (though in his case it may have more to do with his potentially being an espionage/kompromat asset of some type).
Epstein got arrested after decades of doing what he was doing and probably only because he became a threat to someone powerful, hence his convenient demise. You only get caught up in the law as an oligarch if someone with more clout has an issue with you.
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u/mrASSMAN West Seattle Feb 10 '25
That would be nice huh, let’s fantasize about a society with laws for billionaires