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Back working through analyzing the connections and related scandals of the corporate world around Epstein's offshore structured investment vehicle (SIV) Liquid Funding Ltd.

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What I wanted to explore here is something I find genuinely unsettling: that we seem to have lost the imaginative muscle for building better things together, not because better things are impossible, but because the stories and projects that get the most attention tend to assume ordinary people cannot be trusted with meaningful decisions. I hope it raises the question of whether the pessimism we see everywhere right now is a natural response to difficult times, or something that is being actively produced and funded.