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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What, precisely, is your unjust privilege? As you note, we can only give others unjust privileges to compensate if we can't identify these injustices. Yet what, apart from being part of a higher-performing socio-econ group, makes you so certain?
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Our society is built on unjust privileges going in multiple directions, is my point. The land my house is on was taken by force long ago. A bunch of my income is taken by force every year. I applied to grad school as an American citizen, not a Chinese one. Etc.
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It's much harder than that (impossible?). Because, we might have to pay back what the total we gained as a result: monetary gains plus anything else including [some unknown] part of our personalities.
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Everyone wants to give "the poor" or "the victimized" everything except the one thing they owe them: to take the government boot off their necks. Unexpected fines, fees, penalties, etc. cripple the ability of the working poor to plan their futures. See: Redflex, DEA, ATF, etc.pic.twitter.com/wBVO2tOV6r
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