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 …
ah, I misread "their heirs" to mean "the heirs of the slaveholders". Right you are.
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My bad for being unclear! Means the really interesting cases are institutional slaveholders, where the IOU could have remained intact. There was a recent story about Georgetown U selling slaves down to Louisiana in the 1860s and whether they owe the descendants anything.
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yep! I would entirely agree that debts are retained by institutions.
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