From: cryon@mindspring.com (Randy) To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Is George Soros Brilliant? Date sent: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 06:23:46 GMT Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> I have just finished watching George Soros in two recent TV
> interviews. I suspect that he may be a brilliant genius whom we all
> ought to heed.
> Soros, in case you aren't aware of him, is a billionaire money market
> speculator, who is also the world's most generous philanthropist. He
> is a financial carnivore of the first water, and was said to be a
> major factor in the recent Asian recession.
>
> Soros is a man who says that the capitalist system is flawed. He
> favors an approach called "open systems." I don't have the expertise
> to assess his ideas fully (nor the time to acquire such expertise),
> but I like someone who says that all economic systems can be improved.
>
>
> Soros has been accused of socialism, but I do not think he is.
> He is also an atheist, and an old-man atheist. Very rare, that.
>
> Any comments?
> ***************
> Randy
> Cryonics: Gateway to the Future?
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>
Read his essays at http://www.soros.com
Joe