https://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/consider-reparations.html … @robinhanson argues for slavery reparations. This is a good and important post even if you aren't usually a Hanson fan.
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Any halfway sane person knows that black Americans have been wronged by slavery and subsequent rights violations (segregation & expropriation, especially of housing.) The question is, how should such wrongs be righted?
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US politics has overwhelmingly chosen to *compensate for disadvantages* rather than *reverse and pay for injustices.* Affirmative action instead of reparations.
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This pattern generalizes. The US went directly from banning unions to mandating them (roughly speaking) -- from an injustice unfavorable to union workers to an injustice favorable to them.
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People who oppose employer discrimination against women are far more likely to advocate quotas for female hires than blinded hiring. (Even though blinded hiring *does* dramatically increase the number of female hires in many cases!)
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When the political center of gravity notices an injustice done to a group, it generally offers that group *preferential spoils* rather than directly reversing the injustice and compensating the victims and their heirs.
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If Alice wrongs Bob, our system, effectively, allows Alice to keep doing so indefinitely, but then also enables Bob to wrong Alice in some other way. This means Alice and Bob can *never* pay their debts and reconcile.
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @robinhanson
The problem here is that we are talking about reparations for slavery, so Alice's long-dead ancestor wronged Bob's long-dead ancestor. Debts are not inherited. We should help Bob if he needs it because of compassion, not because of history.
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Replying to @ovjocm @s_r_constantin
"Debts are not inherited"; that's just not always true. Consider the national debt, for example.
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The national debt is held by an employee organization that has continuously existed, not an entity that has died.
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