Will this one-by-one system forever be our main thing or do you think we will break monogamy and maybe “team up” as groups or something?

And yeah polygamy is a thing but do you think it will catch on to “the upper class”?

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    Retransfer of wealth is how we end up with 1 trillion dollars being written on a bill

    SA

    The correct country-code is ZA (Zuid-Afrika), Saudi Arabia has SA

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      I’m pretty sure I explicitly addressed Zimbabwe in OP. Leaving white people alone to hoard our looted colonial treasures is not a valid option.

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        I know someone who knows a farmer who, during the stupud zimbwabwe times, had his land redistributed. The land was used for nothing except selling it back later

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          Yeah, I know, that was also bad. To reiterate:

          It really does seem like both S ZA and Zimbabwe chose the wrong strategy to righting colonial inequalities. Something in between, like just a tax on white-owned businesses while they’re disproportionately powerful, could be good.

          In Zimbabwe they forced the transfer all at once and there was no black people to take the stuff who could actually operate it, so it got sold off for parts. And then, of course, they tried to solve their economic woes by printing ever more money.

          I’m guessing the middle road would be a 5% tax or something on the incomes of non-BEE businesses. That way, there would be no catastrophic transition, but with any luck BEE-compliant businesses would grow at a steady pace, and eventually I could actually walk around outside gated neighborhoods without worrying about vigilante redistribution.

          I have family over there, but I’ve never been, so I guess I should end by saying this is just armchair general-ing. Obviously I don’t get a vote.