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Re:Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial m... by andi999 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:00AM (#22711513)
From a US perspective: yes. In the US the compensation is also used as a punishment for the culprit (so e.g. larger companies pay more). I dont know about the dutch system, but in germany they just compensate the financial loss, so more like anual salary* years to retirement (maybe minus deduction of living cost for the deceiced). From the numbers it looks like the Dutch system might je similiar.
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Re:Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial m... by riffraff on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:22AM (#22711649)
but the financial loss should certainly be larger than €123?

Wouldn't anyone who was killed earn more than €100 a year for their lifetime?

I am sure the court has some guiding rationale, but without it this feels outrageous.

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Re:Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial m... by chmod775 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:27AM (#22711681)
Possibly they're not inflation adjusted for whatever reason? Also they probably assumed the widow would not receive all of her husband's money.

Adjusting for inflation would get us to around 2000 euro, which makes sense for poor countries.

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