But we know nothing but vague allusions to the scope of Epstein’s misdeeds after years (decades?) of investigations?? I feel like I am taking crazy pills.
This reminds of the film JFK, from 1991, that retells the story around the JFK assassination. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal film that really, really hit me hard. It's 3 hours and 9 minutes long but I watched it all the way through in one sitting.
It follows the true, real story of a district attorney who looks into details around the event shortly after it happened and gets the exact same feeling as you, where he looks around wonders whether he's taking crazy pills or if everyone else is taking crazy pills. So he goes deeper and tries to find out which is the case...
Highly recommend this film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102138/
My wild guess is that he became disillusioned with the work hard and you will succeed mantra, and realised what many others before him realised, it's all about contacts. So he gave billionaires the one thing they couldn't easily get access to: models. And some of those would be underage he would have immense leverage against them.
"He ran a money management firm catering to the ultra-rich, primarily for Victoria’s Secret mogul Les Wexner."
I think the results speak for themselves. It worked great for him. So how do we fix this semi-broken system, is there anything we can do to prevent this happening again?