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To bring some counterweight to all the hatred towards George Soros: A recent Freakonomics Radio show taught me he is a skilled Esperanto speaker. Esperanto ent
by smhg 9y ago
To bring some counterweight to all the hatred towards George Soros:
A recent Freakonomics Radio show taught me he is a skilled Esperanto speaker. Esperanto enthusiasts generally belong to the more altruist type of people. This might or might not apply to him, but I considered this a sign he probably means well.
Edit: I see he learned it as a child from his father. I guess in that case it says little about his personality.
- ra1n85 9y agoDoes that really provide a counterweight to his role in Ukraine's recent conflict (which resulted in thousands of deaths)?
- kirRoyale 9y agoOr to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
- nradov 9y agoGeorge Soros didn't do anything wrong on Black Wednesday. Rather he did the world a service by helping to destroy an obsolete and unsustainable financial system that was actually harming the world's economy. If Soros hadn't done it then someone else would have done the same thing.
- philipwhiuk 9y ago> If Soros hadn't done it then someone else would have done the same thing. That's a terrible moral defence.
- nradov 9y agoMorality has nothing to do with it in this particular case. When something is unsustainable it will eventually stop one way or another.
- antognini 9y agoYeah, George Soros is one of the ~1000 or so native Esperanto speakers in the world. Interestingly, another native Esperanto speaker won a Nobel prize! I'm not sure what other language can claim that 0.1% of its native speakers are Nobel laureates and another 0.1% are billionaires.
- philipwhiuk 9y ago> A recent Freakonomics Radio show taught me he is a skilled Esperanto speaker. Esperanto enthusiasts generally belong to the more altruist type of people. This might or might not apply to him, but I considered this a sign he probably means well. Let me get this right, your argument is bluntly 'all Esperanto speakers are nice'? How utterly ridiculous.
- smhg 9y agoAs I wrote: I think, on average, Esperanto speakers are more altruistic. Someone who knows more about it should jump in, but as I get it: due to the limited use of the language, a lot of sharing is involved in the community. Also, learning an almost useless language is hardly a selfish thing to do. Why do you think this reasoning is ridiculous?