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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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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