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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Right, but you're applying it backwards. An IOU that says "you owe me $ for enslaving me" is an *asset*, not a debt. So someone whose great-great-grandfather had an IOU like that can inherit it. The question is if there's anyone alive who actually owes that IOU anymore.
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ah, I misread "their heirs" to mean "the heirs of the slaveholders". Right you are.
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