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> If you build a house on rotten stilts, and some neighborhood kid comes and kicks one of them, it's not the kid's fault when the house collapses.

Don't like this metaphor. Maybe the the homeowner can't afford to fix their house. Now they're homeless. Hurting others for enjoyment is the basis of evil. Leave the world better at the end of the day, not worse.

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If you own a house/land, you must maintain it in a safe condition and can be liable for injuries to third parties that result from poor maintenance.

Simplest example: a roof tile fall off your roof and kills a passerby.

Those sorts of maybes don't really matter. "Please don't be a dick" doesn't even work at the neighborhood kids level. It certainly doesn't work at the international finance level.

The Bank of England propped up the currency in a non-sustainable fashion, and spent billions trying to avoid having to admit that was a bad call. Someone was always going to come along and smash it, especially with billions of dollars of upside available.

I can see both sides of this. You can describe Soros' as an inexorable result of natural law, but he still gets to be the dick who kicked it and to profit grotesquely from it.

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