People of that "class" probably view themselves as Citizens of the World. Whether Epstein was a "useful idiot" to Putin, the wealthy oligarchs you don't hear about so much ( internationally and domestically ), we may never know. He was a bigger cog in the machine than previously revealed.

I think it has something to do with the craziness that power creates in small minds and the fact that their misdeeds make for great blackmail material for those grasping for more power.

Nothing to do with personal wealth, status and a bunch of birds of a feather flocking together, then? Everyone out for themselves and using each other, plus anyone else they can get their hands on.

I think they flock together but also use each other for their own purposes. These are not good people.

Is thus the power of positively stinking?
Is that what you get if you cross the ideas of Norman Vincent Peale with Peter Thiel?

And throw in a heavy dose of Machiavelli….

Plus Marquis de Sade...