The Epstein class, apart from wanting you to forget their haneous crimes, also wants you not to question the system that not only made it possible, but inevitable; and that’s just what you should not do.
Capitalism by its very nature creates massive wealth inequality. That’s how it works. When you have private ownership of the means of production, those owners will inevitably become gluttonously wealthy off of the poverty of everyone else. Exploitation creates inequality, because that’s what it is.
Capitalism cannot be reformed. Setting aside for a moment that all concessions the working class wins will inevitably be rolled back by the owning class sooner or later, when you have competition, you have winners and losers. Eventually those winners become monopolies that concentrate all the wealth and power into the hands of a tiny minority. When that happens, you’ve effectively created market feudalism, if not full on fascism. The kind of wealth and power inequality capitalism creates, damages the brains of the owning class, burning out the center of the brain that makes you human and capable of rational thought; the center responsible for empathy. Without that center functioning is no surprise they engage in monstrous behavior. The examples are numerous if you do even a little bit of research. For the sake of your sanity I’m not going to list it here.
If we ever want a society free of the Epsteins of the world, we need to be absolutely certain our societal system does not allow wealth or power to become so concentrated. We need a system that is permanently decentralized and federated and where individuals, especially minorities and the vulnerable, can have their needs met concerns heard and addressed in a timely manner, and their rights respected. We need a system where nobody is in a position to disregard ethics without consequences. We need a system where the kind of structural failures that Epstein and his buddies took advantage of are simply impossible. That’s not something capitalism is capable of. So for the sake of humanity, we must leave it behind.