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His net worth is <$2M.
At that point in his career, Chomsky was getting invited everywhere because he was branded "the top intellectual in the world".
People would see him speak and not understand a damned word he said.
It's not like Chomsky understood anything he was saying outside of linguistics.
$2m is nothing to someone like Epstein. The private jet they're flying in cost $61m, for example