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agf | 1 year ago

If and only if you are still benefiting from that wrong, or others are still suffering for it.

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tharkun__|1 year ago

That's a very slippery slope.

How do you define "benefit"?

Your dad swindled thousands of "investors" out of their retirements and left you millions. You are benefiting from this and the children of the "investors" are suffering.

Your great-grand-dad swindled thousands of "investors" out of their retirements and you inherit a business empire. You are benefiting from this and the hundreds of great-grand-children of the "investors" are also suffering. They could've had inheritances but they didn't and work at Walmart.

You can trace your lineage to Thomas Jefferson who apparently owned 600 slaves over his lifetime. You still benefit from him having been a president and a wealthy man. You should have to trace ancestry of those slaves and compensate their current living family members.

lukan|1 year ago

Slippery slope indeed.

But if your wealth comes from a line of crime, then yes, compensation would be adequate.