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by dismantlethesun 3474 days ago
They get some profit. Whether or not that's "enough" is up to the eye of the beholder.

Are the benefits of living in Argentina society, bolstered by shared oil revenue, good enough for the people who born in the Andean salt flats region? That's a political question, not a moral one.

Additionally, I don't like how this is being framed.

Titling this as happening to 'indigenous peoples' instead of "Citizens of Argentina" and talking about the destruction of culture, as opposed to 'evolution' or 'melding with multicultural society'. Or people 'subsisting' instead of merely being poor. "Provincial" instead of 'uneducated'.

It slants the whole conversation in a direction I think is utterly unfair.

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>>That's a political question, not a moral one.

Pretty sure it's both.