One major feature of the Epstein Files, apart from the heinous predatory and abusive behaviour of powerful men, is their overall disdain for the “lower classes.” In one email exchange between film producer Barry Josephson and Epstein, the two pivoted from discussing a 16 year old girl to a conversation they had had with Bill Gates. The topic apparently pertained to a question Epstein allegedly asked Gates, “how do we get rid of poor people as a whole?”

This isn’t the only reference to elitism at the heart of the files. Epstein associated with billionaires like Peter Theil who is well-known for an essay he wrote in 2009 for the Cato Institute where he said that “freedom and democracy are no longer compatible.”

Theil is a modern-day eugenicist who has invested in startups like Orchid, which allows parents to screen IVF embryos for “polygenic scores” to select for perceived health or intelligence. He is also a key figure in the racist pronatalist movement, which encourages “genetically superior” individuals to have many children to “save civilization.” And has funded “thinkers” from platforms like Quillette or the Stanford Review who have hosted discussions on IQ, genetics, and the widely debunked and discredited field of “race science.”

Epstein himself was disgusted by programs aimed at health and alleviating hunger and starvation in the global south. He was known for discussing these topics at dinner parties and salons with academics and intellectuals. Which calls into question why so many seemed so enthralled by him, from prominent figures like Richard Dawkins to Noam Chomsky.

The Epstein Files should serve as a reminder that most of the ruling class views humanity as a problem to be solved. As both a resource and a liability. And they, alone, intend to solve it without the encumbrance of democratic norms and institutions.

This class has no problem with genocide, with many of them viewing it as a real estate development opportunity. Most have no qualms with cutting funds or research for diseases that disproportionately impact the impoverished of the world. Many support criminalizing the unhoused and under-waged. And all of them benefit directly from the current economic scheme which extorts and exploits working people through exorbitant debt and slave-wages.

In short, we are nothing to them beyond our ability to increase their wealth and privilege.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, February 2026