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by asjdflakjsdf 1091 days ago
I find that a pretty strange take.. Shouldn't data like this open up conversations around inheritance laws etc? Seems crazy that so much of todays wealth has been created a long time ago by horrendous people. The British Royal Family are celebrated around the world yet they made an absolute genuine fortune from the slave trade. Are we not being hypocritical to our own modern standards by accepting that they deserve that wealth? And it is a typical story all throughout the western world and beyond.