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You are badly missing the point in a very fundamental way by focusing on the assets lost by Jewish people during WW2. Two out of Three Jews died. Most Jewish pe
by ineedasername 4y ago
You are badly missing the point in a very fundamental way by focusing on the assets lost by Jewish people during WW2. Two out of Three Jews died. Most Jewish people died, often horribly.
The greater awareness these days of efforts to repatriate some relatively minor bits of lost wealth to Jewish descendants has perhaps distorted the problem space of those times quite a bit for an unfortunately vocal group of strong crypto advocates who hold up theft from the Jewish people as a pillar of reasoning in favor of crypto.
It’s fantastic when repatriation can happen, less so (in my mind) for monetary reasons and more so for the symbolism of regaining at least some small bit of what was lost in the horror and injustice.
But focusing on ww2 in the way some crypto folks do… the closes analogy I can think of (and maybe not a great one) is that it’s like focusing on the people caught in the twin towers on 9/11, but below the impacts and able to escape. And then saying “My goodness, they lost all their laptops and computers! If only they’d had VM cloud desktops!