[VISION] | PEOPLE: There are no people visible in the image. | TEXT: "Among his frequent guests is Bill Gates, for whom Epstein has become a key advisor, proposing a way to leverage the resources of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to accommodate many other fortunes, so that, Epstein explains, "you might join 50 or 60 billionaires on one giving project." "As part of a Gates-encouraged effort to get "out in front" of the notice that might be expected to greet the Gates association with him, Epstein agreed to these on-the-record conversations with me. His subject, on a morning in late fall, sitting at the dining room table—its faux-baronial quality disturbed by an ever-present white board—is "hyper wealth." His subject is always wealth—how capital should react to the given global political, economic, and cultural moment. His stock in trade is not precisely the making of money, but the issues that arise when money, at a heretofore unimaginable rate, makes itself, altering many basic economic, social, and personal calculations. He recounts a dinner he had two nights before. The scene is, like much of what he does, a conspiracy theorist's fantasy—the six men at this dinner, all technology entrepreneurs, representing, together, several hundred billion dollars and now trying to figure out how to use it to shape the world to their liking. "In the past, only governments had this kind of money, money of a reality altering scale," says Epstein" | OBJECTS: - Dining room table - Faux-baronial quality - White board | SETTING: - Indoor setting - Dining room - Late fall | ACTIVITY: - Conversations about hyper wealth and its impact on global politics, economics, and culture. - Recounting a dinner with technology entrepreneurs discussing how to use their collective wealth to shape the world. | NOTABLE: - The mention of Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - The discussion of hyper wealth and its implications on various aspects of society. - The reference to a di