The problem with holocaust reparations is like the problem with slavery reparations: * the people who deserve to pay, mostly don't * the people who deserve to receive them, mostly don't It's transferring money from one set of semi-bystanders to different set.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1102666450546900992 …
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3/ I have zero doubts it had benefits! Receiving money is always great. My question is specifically about the set of people who pay it, and the set of people who receive it. If we taxed you $10k and gave it to me, there'd be "substantial benefits"!https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1102667707059703808 …
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4/ If we could tailor a reparations strategy that taxed former members of the Nazi party and gave the money to former concentration camp inmates, I'd applaud it.
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5/ Disaggregation is hard, but it's worth doing. The problem is that it's often expensive. So deadweight losses exist. One great thing about about the growth in IT is it reduces transaction costs. In 2019 it's trivial to figure out how much you use the roads and pay for that.
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7/ In theory, people in favor of reparations should join me in favoring tailoring both the payers and the recipients to the correct sets of people. However, if their motives are NOT equity / torts, but instead power machinations or building political power bases, then not.
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you seem to be under the delusion that individuals exist
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that's okay, plenty of room for you in the re-education camps
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Imagine your Yankee ancestors helped smuggle black slaves north, or German ancestors helped Jews escape in the Holocaust. You pay the same reparations as the descendants of Stonewall Jackson or Heinrich Himmler.
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