1/ Long-time followers of this feed will note that I smuggle ideas at times. One of which is that it’s in society’s best interest to pay certain groups vastly more money, and usually groups that infuriate me. If you look at Jeffrey Epstein’s stable of scientists you may get why.
2/ Think of the underpaid U.S. research community (particularly theoretical physicists, molecular biologists, ML-experts & top mathematicians) as an unlocked Yellow Bugatti with the motor running and ‘Steal Me’ painted in red on the front hood, in Mandarin/Farsi/Russian/Arabic...
3/ Epstein offered many scientists ‘restoration’ by dangling private planes, exotic locales & FUNDING (probably more than sex) the way colleges at Oxford and Cambridge use cellars and high table. We need to fire our worst researchers & start paying our best at a different scale.
4/ Were I Epstein or whoever created the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Secretive Finacial Genius character’, my scientific targets would have partially overlapped his. But I‘d have bought off the entire IAS physics department outright. Those people should all be made very wealthy & happy.
End/ Oddly, Epstein was buying quite good people, but many who were distinguished by being outward facing rather than the quiet introverted types famous within the fields yet all but unknown outside of them. That‘s a puzzle. Maybe they were the lure to entrap others. Or perhaps..
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