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I honestly find myself scratching my head every time George Soros speaks. He almost comes across as someone desperate to be taken seriously, to be viewed as a v
by cletus 9y ago
I honestly find myself scratching my head every time George Soros speaks. He almost comes across as someone desperate to be taken seriously, to be viewed as a visionary, a thought leader, a prognosticator.
But what has he down to justify this? Nothing as far as I can tell. He made a bunch of money as a currency speculator, most famously breaking the British pound. Sure. Good for him. But if we're going to talk about adding value to society...
- aylmao 9y agoWhy is this comment getting down voted? EDIT: And why did I get down voted? Genuinely curious; he didn't say anything inflammatory, polarizing or _wrong_. Replies are not even disagreeing, just "explaining".
- adamnemecek 9y agoI think that he thinks that his philanthropy gives him legitimacy.
- badpun 9y agoI don't see how giving away money is related to being "a visionary, a thought leader" etc.
- IntronExon 9y agoSuccess seems to be the metric by which the credulous judge “visionaries” to begin with. If you’re going to buy into the “thought leader” concept, Soros seems to qualify as much as Jobs.
- bryanrasmussen 9y agoI had the understanding his currency speculation and breaking of the British pound was based on some prognostication, visionary understandings of currency in the modern world? So a great level of insight was achieved leading to adding value to himself, but not to society.
- weavie 9y agoI'm not sure it took a huge amount if visionary understanding of the currency markets. Fixing a currency to another and using the central bank to step in to ensure this generally goes against the concept of supply and demand that underpins these markets. It's just it took someone with enough resources to go against a central bank to carry it out.
- jstalin 9y agoMaybe he's trying to atone for his Nazi collaboration past.
- mkstowegnv 9y agoAs Snopes documents [1] this is a vicious politically motivated lie. You should also read Wikipedia's description of his youth in occupied Hungary [2] and ask yourself what completely unprincipled extremist parties are you uncritically believing? Of course your choice of username suggests the possibility that principle is not one of your high priorities. 1 https://www.snopes.com/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/ https://www.snopes.com/george-soros-ss-nazi-germany/ 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
- jstalin 9y agoOr you could watch the video where he talks about unapologetically helping to confiscate the property of fellow Jews who were sent to death camps. No moral qualms whatsoever. https://youtu.be/0PUDmLCkgNc?t=7m24s https://youtu.be/0PUDmLCkgNc?t=7m24s