Appeal to authority fallacy
Another appeal to authority fallacy
Good for you... but irrelevant!
Again, good for you, but irrelevant!
And again, good for you, but irrelevant!
Now you are describing multi-level marketing... which is legal, and not a pyramid scheme (which is not legal). You claim to be an accountant, but you don't know the difference between a pyramid scheme, and multi level marketing. I'm not surprised.
No-one (me included) has ever claimed Epstein's outfit was like a Tupperware party.
Irrelevant!
Oh, I understand 100% how Epstein's scheme worked (at least as far as we are able to see into it without further information... and it was nothing, repeat NOTHING like a Ponzi scheme. Your claim to that effect is complete and utter bollocks.
Sex Ponzi as an analogy.
Individuals that engage in a Sex Ponzi analogy focus all of their energy into attracting new Johns/clients to make investments in your Sex Ponzi. This new income is used to pay the original sex workers their returns, marked as a profit – (which is huge compared to what the sex workers are paid and what the Sex Ponzi organiser takes from their clients) - from a legitimate transaction from, for example, buying a ticket to an ‘exclusive event’.
An analogy is a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is an example of an analogy?
An analogy is saying something is like something else to make some sort of explanatory point. For example, “Life is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you're gonna get.”
Epstein/Maxwell Sex Ponzi Analogy
Epstein invests in some sex workers. He likes variety and at least three sessions a day for himself. The other stipulation is that they must look young. In order to keep up demand, Maxwell offers the girls a payment (for them, a generous one) for recruiting amongst their friends. So the girls recruit their friends in exchange for cash payment.
However, the
limitations are:
• The number of girls Epstein can be serviced by in one day/one week/one month. Let’s say, twenty a week and 80 a month. Over three months that is either 240 different girls, a combination of different girls and the same girl, as no one girl is available three times a day for six days a week, nor does Epstein want the same girl more than a few times.
• The girls’ age. Once a girl starts looking like 20-something, she is redundant, but could still recruit.
• The number of parties and ‘events’ at which Epstein can share the girls around.
• The number of people attending these events that would want one of Epstein’s girls.
Unlimited factors are:
• The amount of cash Epstein has. For a disadvantaged teenager €200 is a lot of money and hard to turn down, especially if she can multiply it several times, and earn further cash from introducing friends.
• The number of attendees at Epstein and Maxwell events, presumably the more girls Epstein can provide the more interest in predatory men.
• The predatory men being selected for the wealth by Epstein and Maxwell also have no problems in ‘investing’ indirectly with Epstein, in exchange for sexual ‘favours’ from his stable. Perhaps included in the price of the ticket for the event.
• Epstein encourages his contacts to recruit more contacts to his scheme.
• Maxwell and Epstein are the middle men who bring the two parties together.
The Price
• The girls being young and from dysfunctional families in the main, although some are from wealthy homes and well-educated, know it is illegal but don’t realise the toll on their mental health in later years.
• They may contract STD’s, pregnancies, terminations, a juvenile misdemeanours record.
• The toll may include becoming dependent on drugs or alcohol to help cope with the stress of be used as a sex object by various men, some many years older than themselves.
• Likewise, the ‘clients’ realise that Epstein and Maxwell have ‘something’ on them, perhaps in the form of photos, tapes and videos. They realise they could be – or are being – blackmailed.
• They are incentivised to keep the operation secret, especially if they are ‘respectable citizens’ with wives and children.
• They are incentivised to keep the operation secret because underage sex is illegal.
The Risks for Epstein/Maxwell
• A serious crime conviction in conspiracy to sex traffic underage girls.
• A serious crime conspiracy to run a prostitution ring.
• A serious crime conspiracy to run a protection racket, for example, demanding ‘subs’ from their contact lists, or threats of exposure.
So: the sex workers invest their bodies into the scheme in exchange for ready cash and the lure of glamorous parties in exotic locations and mingling with the rich and famous.
The johns invest in Epstein’s ‘foundation’ and in attending his events, including scientific dinners with renowned scientists of the day, including Stephen Hawkings and Steven Pinker as guests (NB, there is no evidence they were johns), parties and orgies at his Zorro ranch in New Mexico and Little St. James’s in the Caribbean.
Epstein and Maxwell invest to build up this covert and illegal sex ring operation and to protect their ‘investments’ they tape record the goings on between the sex workers and the johns. The FBI found concealed video equipment in every room of his New York mansion, for example.
The Sting
• One or two of the sex workers realise the toll their ‘work’ has taken. They go to the police. They contact an attorney.
• The johns threaten the girls with legal action
• A corrupt judge, Acosta, takes nominal action to shut the case down by imposing a lenient sentence on Epstein and giving indemnity from legal action to his associates, which includes Maxwell.
• A group of former sex workers, including Giuffre, find an attorney willing to represent them, Bradley Edwards.
• The case is moved to New York and Epstein is arrested.
• It seems the game is over for the johns and the sex workers, but then Epstein is found dead in his cell and an inaudible sigh of relief goes up amongst the johns.
• Maxwell has gone into hiding.
• But then, she is discovered, arrested and charged
• Game on.
• The bottom begins to fall out.
• The girls’ lives are wrecked but they get compo.
• The johns lives may be wrecked - but not yet! - the higher up they are (Clinton, the British Royal Family) the harder they will fall.
• They may need to explain why they paid hugely inflated prices for a dinner, for example, over and beyond the costs of an airfare and accommodation.
• Many will have recharged the costs to their corporations as ‘client entertaining’. Such an expenses reduces their corporation tax bill as an allowable deduction form net profit.
