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Normally, you don't give rewards to irrational people who are in a state of rage. All negotiators know this. Therefore, the fact that concessions have come, and kept coming, under current conditions, means the people in charge think the actors involved are rational.
If the people in charge think the actors involved are rational, they think racism is unjustified. But the people in charge are guilty of maintaining institutional racism. So they know the system is wrong, but have been maintaining it anyway. Absolutely cold blooded.
I've been thinking about capitalism and how it didn't start under conditions where all claims of ownership could be validly derived from first principle. We've been told things like "in the long run the best player wins". But we've also been lied to about how long the long run is
The extent to which capitalists are terrified of justified redistribution is the exact extent to which capitalism is illegitimate. If it were possible to win back such fortunes in the span of a single lifetime, or even three generations, they would bite the bullet at this point.
They know that wealth itself is robust, regardless of legitimacy. And it's only becoming more robust over time. They know that while wealth isn't zero sum, wealth is leverage in a zero-sum power game. They're terrified of being forced to play the game they made others play.
I also see Chinese state communism in a sad new light. Do the Chinese have an equivalent concept to selling your soul to the devil? It would almost be better if justice were impossible, if upwards mobility were impossible, just because the timespans involved are so horrendous.
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