[mancerayder]

Punishment, reparations are tricky since you're not punishing the people who are still alive. You might be punishing or asking for monetary reparations from their ancestors, arguing they are beneficiaries, but the reality is you'll also be punishing immigrants, and people who look like the colonialists but have nothing to do with it.

The history of the world is a history of the 1 percent and the 99 percent. Just reading some Charles Dickens will show you how awful life was for the lower classes in London, which were numerous. Child labor, extreme poverty, debtors' prisons. Torture for punishment. The history of Europe is also a history of war, serfdom and even slavery, long before we enter the rest of the world.