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Epstein’s commentary on billionaire wealth accumulation and future wealth transfer

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November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #022865
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The passage offers broad, philosophical observations from Jeffrey Epstein about the scale of billionaire wealth and its future disposition. It contains no specific names, transactions, dates, or actio Epstein claims Forbes 400 added $500 billion in a single year. He predicts $4.2 trillion of wealth will need to be given away over the next 40 years. He suggests the investigative focus should be on

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“Epstein’s long-time business thesis is that the rich know very little about money. They may know about thei...”

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Epstein’s long-time business thesis is that the rich know very little about money. They may know about their own businesses, but the great sums that are the result are ultimately an afterthought and demand an entirely different sort of intellectual discipline. The Forbes 400, says Epstein, not immune to an amount of wonder, increased their wealth by $500 billion last year, meaning, in effect, that on average every Forbes-list billionaire makes more than another billion every year. And, points out the 62-year-old Epstein, they will almost all be dead in 40 years, most well before that, meaning $4.2 trillion, compounding everyday, will have to be given away. “So, to understand the future, what you have to begin to do is follow the money, not in Watergate-like terms backwards, as in who has gotten it, but forwards to where it will go and who will get it.” Epstein can find himself echoing aspects of Thomas Piketty on the inequities of the accumulation of wealth (“the divide is between people with assets, which appreciate, and people without assets, who fail to advance—that is, of course, the miracle of compounded interest”), except for the fact that Epstein, knowing the rich, understands a point that Piketty doesn’t: “Nobody, nobody, wants to give it all to their children. Everybody now has the modern appreciation that one of the curses of great wealth is that it can make your kids weird and fucked up.” Epstein’s position in this private allotment of a decent fraction of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product is

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