It was a debt more likely to randos and foreign treasuries because they paid the owners off on the spot

who cares

we pay for our debts or we don't get to have them

i know, i think its ultimately pointless and incredibly unfair to the vast majority of people in the 'slave owning country' who were just working in factories or whatever and did not in any way own or benefit from slavery

I think the slave owners descendants who inherited their wealth should pay back the 2.4bn to the treasury 😛

I'm happy to have paid taxes for that. I'm happy to pay a share of a debt that lets me live in a society that found the actual just solution to the problem

and also I want a tax rebate 😛

Lol most of those slavers descendants were ravaged by estate taxes in WW1

they paid it back

don't fear that

I dont like the fact that Ive paid money to slave owners

at some point we have to stop trying to retrospectively fix things and just accept that the past is the past

you haven't

and my government forced me to do it

you've paid money to random debters

who paid the slave owners

the money was for slaves

We could have just copied Russia and forced the Slaves to pay it off

Also when, in the 1880s, the government decided to pay this. Almost none of the governments wealth was from taxation of random plebs

so why have we been paying it right up until 2015?

it was from merchant duties, many of whom were profiting from slave products, and taxes on estates

Probably because WW1 happened and annihilated the country's finances before it was paid off before

then WW2 happened and did it again

in that case I demand germany pay me reparations for slavery

Deal

Well if it's WW1 I'm definitely blaming Austria

How would they pay reparations though since the Austro-Hungarian Empire doesn't exist anymore?

It wouldn't be fair to put it all on Austria

Put it all on Bosnia just to make it the least fair possible

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germany has enough

they got all that nazi gold

and they didn't pay either of their world war bills in full <:peepoMad:611573754060996618>

I wonder if the EU does refunds... how much you reckon we paid in over the years.. minus rebates and money spent on us.... a trillion?

Well to be fair the first bill was far too high

They should have paid the second in full though

how do you even go about quantifying it?

the EU funds?

I mean if I were the French I'd be inclined to shove a enormous pipe up Germany's ass for turning the north and east of my country into a continous warzone too. So I can't exactly fault them for that bill

they send us a big fat bill every year

The war wasn't really Germany's fault though and when Germany had beaten France in the Franco-Prussian war earlier on the restrictions placed on the French were much more lenient