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"I am there to make money; I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do" - George Soros Someone who explicitly says that as a teenager, he

"I am there to make money; I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do" - George Soros Someone who explicitly says that as a teenager, he enjoyed his time working for the Nazis while they were looting those targeted, is not going to be shamed over taking $1 billion in a trade. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWizajL7tA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWizajL7tA compilation of clips from 60 Minutes interviews, etc. (from 3m45s he talks about his time helping to confiscate property from Hungarian Jews)

IAmEveryone 5y ago
Wikipedia: Tivadar [his father] saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism.[ Stop lying.
- mikeyouse 5y ago
  The idea that Soros, who was a 13-year old Hungarian Jew pretending to be christian as to not be murdered by the Nazis, somehow was sympathetic to the nazis is one of the laziest attempts at smearing someone I can remember.
  - lupire 5y ago
    The accusation is not that he sympathized with the Nazis. Quite the contrary, the accusation is that he has no sympathy for anyone. The accusation is that his worldview, was (and is) that he is responsible only for himself and he has no effect on affairs because if he didn't do [whatever] someone else would. He claims, on essence, that the events of the world is an unchangeable script, and the only control we have is which role we play. For an expert in markets, he claims stunning ignorance of the concept of marginal effects, and a non-stunning awareness of how to profit from amorality.
MerelyMortal 5y ago
I had thought poorly of George Soros based on other people's words, before reading all of the comments written thus far in this thread. Watching the video you linked, cemented my notion that Goeorge Soros is being treated as a scapegoat. Thank you for sharing the video, as I had never actually listened to him speak before. In that video, he seems like a logical and emotional person who can keep emotions in their proper perspective. Everything is nuanced, and he can navigate it. It looks like he has a high emotional IQ and intelligence IQ. Regarding the last segment of the video that contains an audio clip, it talks about personal development. Personal development can happen in terrible enviornments like the German occupation and Nazi confescation of Jewish assets. He was glad that he developed as opposed to not developing. It's a little odd that he called it a happy time though, and I am disappointed that he does not believe in God, but that doesn't mean he should be made a scapegoat for unwinding of financial problems started by others.
- lupire 5y ago
  He explicitly didn't say he was happy he developed. He said he was happy, and that happiness was possible because he was solipsistic and concerned only for his own position. And how can you congratulate someone for being logical, high IQ/EQ while being disappointed that they don't believe in God, which is an illogical idea and emotional crutch?
  - MerelyMortal 5y ago
    Do you mean, "He didn't explicitly say," otherwise how do you know what he was thinking if you assert, "He explicitly didn't say"? I didn't hear him say he was solipsistic either. Being logical doesn't preclude someone from beleiving in a god, though it will probably preclude some beliefs or teachings of most organized religions. (There are a few minor issues of the religion of which I am a part of, but religion is a man-made construct and thus inherently fallible. And I recognize that since there are multiple different religions, not all of them can be correct at the same time, and thus it's possible the one I am a part of is one of the incorrect ones.) Believing in a god can be used as an emotional crutch by some people, but it does not mean it is always an emotional crutch for everyone that does believe in a god. Many people have a problem of differentiating from what was actually said versus what they think someone meant. Sometimes I have a problem of understanding what was meant when people don't actually say what they mean. I think George Soros is a person who means exactly what he says.

IAmEveryone 5y ago

Wikipedia: Tivadar [his father] saved not only his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and Soros later wrote that 1944 had been "the happiest [year] of his life," for it had given him the opportunity to witness his father's heroism.[ Stop lying.

mikeyouse 5y ago
The idea that Soros, who was a 13-year old Hungarian Jew pretending to be christian as to not be murdered by the Nazis, somehow was sympathetic to the nazis is one of the laziest attempts at smearing someone I can remember.
- lupire 5y ago
  The accusation is not that he sympathized with the Nazis. Quite the contrary, the accusation is that he has no sympathy for anyone. The accusation is that his worldview, was (and is) that he is responsible only for himself and he has no effect on affairs because if he didn't do [whatever] someone else would. He claims, on essence, that the events of the world is an unchangeable script, and the only control we have is which role we play. For an expert in markets, he claims stunning ignorance of the concept of marginal effects, and a non-stunning awareness of how to profit from amorality.

MerelyMortal 5y ago

I had thought poorly of George Soros based on other people's words, before reading all of the comments written thus far in this thread. Watching the video you linked, cemented my notion that Goeorge Soros is being treated as a scapegoat. Thank you for sharing the video, as I had never actually listened to him speak before. In that video, he seems like a logical and emotional person who can keep emotions in their proper perspective. Everything is nuanced, and he can navigate it. It looks like he has a high emotional IQ and intelligence IQ. Regarding the last segment of the video that contains an audio clip, it talks about personal development. Personal development can happen in terrible enviornments like the German occupation and Nazi confescation of Jewish assets. He was glad that he developed as opposed to not developing. It's a little odd that he called it a happy time though, and I am disappointed that he does not believe in God, but that doesn't mean he should be made a scapegoat for unwinding of financial problems started by others.

lupire 5y ago
He explicitly didn't say he was happy he developed. He said he was happy, and that happiness was possible because he was solipsistic and concerned only for his own position. And how can you congratulate someone for being logical, high IQ/EQ while being disappointed that they don't believe in God, which is an illogical idea and emotional crutch?
- MerelyMortal 5y ago
  Do you mean, "He didn't explicitly say," otherwise how do you know what he was thinking if you assert, "He explicitly didn't say"? I didn't hear him say he was solipsistic either. Being logical doesn't preclude someone from beleiving in a god, though it will probably preclude some beliefs or teachings of most organized religions. (There are a few minor issues of the religion of which I am a part of, but religion is a man-made construct and thus inherently fallible. And I recognize that since there are multiple different religions, not all of them can be correct at the same time, and thus it's possible the one I am a part of is one of the incorrect ones.) Believing in a god can be used as an emotional crutch by some people, but it does not mean it is always an emotional crutch for everyone that does believe in a god. Many people have a problem of differentiating from what was actually said versus what they think someone meant. Sometimes I have a problem of understanding what was meant when people don't actually say what they mean. I think George Soros is a person who means exactly what he says.