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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by kamaal on Thursday September 15, 2022 @10:39PM (#32861426)
>>and then applying a few hundred years of compounding interest.

Yeah that is unfortunately how money works. Why do you think countries like USA are so rich, they've been making investments for a few centuries now.

Robbers and looter should pay for opportunity costs, this is how it should work.

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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by DuskStar on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:29PM (#32880623)
The problem with this logic is it means that the largest ever theft was some hunter-gatherer stealing a spear 100,000 years ago. That's worth almost 10^3000 dollars now, you know!

At some distance in time, returns on capital are no longer adequately approximated by "x%APR". I think this distance in time is at most around 150 years, and even then only in the USA. In most of the world, it's far less than that.

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Re:The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it... by concordDance on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:55AM (#32863370)
People can rob and loot. A notion of "country" that conflates things separated by hundreds of years is a polite fiction at best.
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