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George Soros isn't a foreign policy expert. Neither is he a philosopher: he egregiously misunderstood Popper's open society concept. Having rich people controll
by concinds 4y ago
George Soros isn't a foreign policy expert. Neither is he a philosopher: he egregiously misunderstood Popper's open society concept. Having rich people controlling government, corporate action, media, and NGOs (currently the case) is not open society or democracy, it's oligarchy.
See this thread: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1039842312061374464 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1039842312061374464
Notice that 'the West' partially supported the Hong Kong protests[0] through its US Agency for Global Media (USAGM; independent US agency), Voice of America (US state-owned), and Radio Free Asia (subsidiary to USAGM), and that the HK protests were partly violent.
To be clear, the idea of billionaires funding NGOs or using media influence to achieve societal changes they desire (no matter how laudable) is not open society.
edit: added link
[0]: https://time.com/5860163/trump-hong-kong-funding-freeze/ https://time.com/5860163/trump-hong-kong-funding-freeze/