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Agreed. The person I was replying to took the initial comment regarding nation karma for the US very personally and started ranting that he didn’t deserve this shit. No one blamed him, and I was trying to convey the same thing that you wrote: it doesn’t matter that we were not personally responsible for the historical crimes our nations committed, if the current society we live in still bases its wealth on what was stolen. We’d be indirectly benefitting from those crimes and therefore would have a responsibility to acknowledge that and try to do what we can to even things out if and when we can. Rejecting all links to those historical crimes and any responsibility for them can come across as arrogant to those on the other side of that equation, those who were robbed. But the person started hurling insults so I was obviously unable to communicate what I wanted to communicate.

You’re screaming “fuck off, I don’t deserve any of this because those thefts were carried out before I was 18”, but you’re screaming that sitting on the stolen furniture in a stolen house. The crimes mentioned predating your eighteenth birthday doesn’t mean shit when you’re still benefiting from the results of those crimes.

The whole economy has already crashed multiple times, based on frivolous financial speculation on a massive scale with fiat currency. Gold, which is not a rock by the way, is at the very least finite so it inhibits the ability of these people to print fake money and burn it up, destroying people’s lives in the process. I’m not saying a gold standard would be preferable, but I do believe the question to be far more nuanced than “idiots wanna base money off of rocks, instead of just feels as we do currently”.