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Yeah, you're being sarcastic by using past history. Nice... Maybe we could cancel some debt. Living in a world where might makes right dosent end well for an

Yeah, you're being sarcastic by using past history. Nice... Maybe we could cancel some debt. Living in a world where might makes right dosent end well for anyone. Not even the victors, not anymore. While we can't change the past we can learn from it, like South Africa. It takes some truth and reconciliation to make things better. Not perfect. That's the goal, move the bar a little higher. Not solve everything all at once, that's impossible. Better than " O well, thats history." Its easy to make jokes, do the hard thing. That negativity really dosent add to anything.

panick21_ 5y ago
The problem I have with these numbers based tallies of history is that it the exact opposite of what you suggest. Its not a constructive rework of history, acknowledgment and 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung'. Its a political hammer to demonize and to demand reparations for a history that most people that were involved are long dead. And somebody that wanted to make the opposite argument could make it by using different assumptions. To make such numbers based argument you need are realist alternative to compare against and we can endlessly argue about that. When we talk about history we both need to talk about the exploitation of Bengal and we need to talk about how India is a democracy and how that is pretty crazy state of affairs that one would have considered highly unlikely in 1600. Considering every other great gun-powder empire is not a democracy. Trying to sum up 500 years of history into a single monetary number is not 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' to me. P.S: And btw, as I Swiss person I would really like some of that sweet French and Austrian money. Thanks.