# George Soros on Market Morality and His Wartime Experience - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069125922360283630 - Source account: [@RebellioMarket](https://x.com/RebellioMarket) - Source language: English - Duration: 3:16 - Published: 2026-06-24 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience) In the last two years, you've been blamed for financial collapse of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia. [0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=7) All of the above. All of the above. Are you that powerful? [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=12) No, I think there's a great misunderstanding. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=15) I am basically there to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of what I do. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=24) As a competitor, I've got to compete to win. [0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=28) As a human being, I am concerned about the society in which I live. [0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=35) Which George Soros am I talking to now? The amoral George Soros or the moral George Soros? [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=41) It's one person. It's one person who at one time engages in amoral activities and the rest of the time tries to be moral. [0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=51) You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian. [1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=63) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps. [1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=69) Right. I was 14 years old and I would say that that's when my character was made. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=75) In what way? That one should think ahead, one should understand and anticipate events. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=82) And one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=87) I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=91) My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. [1:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=99) Yes. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=104) That's right. Yes. I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. [1:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=116) Was it difficult? Not at all. Not at all. [2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=122) Maybe as a child you don't see the connection, but it created no problem at all. [2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=132) No feeling of guilt? No. For example, that I'm Jewish and here I am watching these people go. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=139) I could just as easily be there. I should be there. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=142) None of that. Well, of course, I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. [2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=158) But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there because that was, well, actually, a funny way, it's just like in markets that if I weren't there, of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. [3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=180) Whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator. [3:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=184) The property was being taken away. So I had no role in taking away that property. [3:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/SrCPuVMrh1zv/en/george-soros-on-market-morality-and-his-wartime-experience?t=191) So I had no sense of guilt.