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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2/ Imagine that you're a non political baker in Germany. You never voted for Nazis, you never collaborated with Nazis, and the war the Nazis started resulted in your bakery being bombed. Now you are taxed to send money to a set of people, some of whom didn't suffer under Nazism
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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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Strong historical prior that anyone disadvantaged enough to deserve reparations is too disadvantaged to have a seat at the negotiating table, therefore all such arguments can be assumed to be a pretense for a powergrab by an existing powerful faction.
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