re: Does the Jeffery Epstein case make you appreciate Eyes Wide Shut differently?

Enh.

This is a bit of stretch but people are going to buy into it as long as they get to slander a group they don't like.

Liberals are part of a giant pedophile cannibal sex cult!

Please pay no attention to conservatives posing with this convicted child molester.

Really it comes down to something that Lindsay Ellis brought up in her review of the final season collapse of Game of Thrones. Power does not corrupt.

Power reveals. When you have a lot of power, be it money, political power, or what have you, you can finally be the a-hole you want to be. You want to cheat on your wife in the Oval Office with a chubby intern? Go right ahead. You want to raw dog a porn star just a few months after your wife had your baby? It is all good.

It is not that the "ruling" class is more immoral than the rest of us, most immoral things are being done by people who aren't rich enough to wipe their behinds with hundred dollar bills. It is that extreme wealth gives those people even more opportunities to indulge themselves.

Give a good, honest, person a ton of money and they will be a good, honest, person with a ton of money and probably wind up donating most of it. Give a scumbag... like me... a ton of money and I'll cheerfully blow it on hookers and make Caligula look like an amateur. I'll probably donate some to charity too but let us pretend I don't have that character flaw.