About this episode

Sandip Roy reflects on the implications of Jeffrey Epstein's connections to the powerful and questions the moral choices individuals might face in such situations.

Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to rich and powereful people seems never ending, but Sandip wonders if we had been invited onto that gilded island, how many of us would have had the willpower to refuse.

People in this episode

Host: Sandip Roy

Topics covered

• wealth
• power
• morality
• society
• ethics

Keywords

• Jeffrey Epstein
• island
• powerful people
• morality
• society

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