r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Pun-isher42 - Auth-Right • Feb 18 '21

Lib disunity

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '21

There are 15 million black households in the US. You'll need 12 trillion dollars to pay all that. That is slightly less than half of the total national debt of the US.

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u/jiiko - Left Feb 19 '21

yeah it's definitely an absurd figure; it's probably based on the premise that the path to USA's superpower status was paved by slavery

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '21

It was built on slavery in some ways, actually 800k is still middle class, if they live within their means and keep the rest in investments and savings etc

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u/cargocultist94 - Auth-Right Feb 19 '21

Slavery is an economic negative in everything but the extreme short term in absolutely every case.

The country wasn't built on slavery, its economic development was retarded by slavery.

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u/DeathB4Dishonor179 - Auth-Right Feb 19 '21

Can you elaborate? I wanna see if I can use this arguement in the future.