The notion that people have to be blackmailed doesn't really make sense-- let's say that Epstein was running a blackmail operation-- what's gonna happen to someone who breaks containment? You're gonna have-- what? You're gonna have a video of someone raping a child leaked? & the source of that would just remain anonymous? No investigation? Doesn't make any sense at all. It's not about blackmail. You don't have to blackmail people who have positions of power, they have positions of power because they're already compromised. What Bill Gates did on Epstein's island is no more perverse or corrupt than what he does every fucking day of his life.

Epstein's job was just to gather intelligence by enticement-- that means having conversations & recording them-- & getting those conversations to happen by procuring enticements to occasion that conversation. He was gathering intelligence-- that was his job-- part of that was the mystique & seduction of getting elite people to open up, by having them mutually compromise themselves-- it's the same logic behind any sort of seduction. The salaciousness of child sex trafficking is more scandalous for normal people, but in the world of globetrotting elites-- there's entire countries that are "Epstein's Island" -- if Bill Gates just wanted to rape kids he could go almost anywhere in the third world-- that's something you can take for granted that rich people do. The really "dangerous" thing about Epstein getting exposed & investigated would be the massive nexus of insider trading & intelligence gathering going on-- that's the "real crime" that someone like Bill Gates would be afraid of.

It's obviously easier for people to be scandalized by the sex crimes-- because the financial crimes are more abstract-- this is also what happened with our general understanding of the Bible-- that "sex crimes" became the central representation of evil, while the financial aspects of these same sex crimes being considered secondary. Bill Gates is raping your kids financially every single day-- but that's not as salacious, is it?

It's exactly like the Hunter Biden laptop-- yeah he probably rapes kids-- he smokes crack-- he takes pictures of his penis-- but that ultimately distracts from the legally actionable stuff in terms of financial corruption-- the details of which are too abstract to garner popular disdain, even though they'd be easier to prove in court.

Epstein's primary job was laundering money-- with his position of power, he also used a lot of his money to be able to rape kids-- but the raping kids was afforded by his protection from his instrumentality in laundering money. Epstein wasn't even particularly "careful" -- he was paying teenage girls in cash to give him "massages" in his Florida mansion for years. He knew he could afford to be sloppy like that, & this was proven when he got off easy, because he belonged to intelligence, & was protected due to his instrumental knowledge of money laundering circuits. He laundered money, & he also informed on money launderers-- he was useful to both criminals & investigators of crime-- he basically had a letter of marque from multiple intelligence agencies, & connections to a vast array of wealthy interests due to his money laundering.
No one likes to realize that "raping kids" is something even poor people do-- it's easier to imagine that this is something "the elite" do exclusively-- but money laundering is actually more class stratified. A janitor can rape kids, but he can't launder money through the labyrinth of offshore banking accounts for drug cartels etc.