Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall
“No one living in Britain can be compensated for that past existence of slavery or the slave trade. This assertion depends upon a previous assertion, obviously. But, as is often so fun, we can take someone’s assertion and take it to be true and then see where that leads us. So, one assertion out there is that it was slavery — or the slave trade perhaps — which made Britain rich. … So, anyone living in a society made rich by slavery is themselves a beneficiary of slavery. For they’re gaining the high wages that come from living in a rich place. … It is wholly impossible to compensate, with money, someone for having made them rich.” (03/29/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/thinking-logically-about-slavery-reparations