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a large corporation which moved into your town and made everyone work for free for that corporation for generations. They decide to give up their unlawful hold on free labor in 2070, but they don't compensate anyone for the damages they have done. By 2070, since you didn't get any pay, you have no assets, and you can't buy land, or start your own small business, so you go work for the same corporation which you worked for for free, but now you get "slave" wages for your labour, so it still takes you and your family 100 years before you can even get even within sight of the economic position you were in in 2003.
So, to correct this problem which is really having very negative economic ramifications on your town, and gives that corporation a real unfair competitive advantage versus you and versus every other company in the same business, congress decideds to give you a cuase of action (just like the families of holocaust victims had a cause of action agains the banks which stole the contents of safety deposist boxes and abandoned savings accounts during and after WWII).
Now, there are a couple ways to deal with this. Certainly, some people will be able to trace very direct connections between their damages in 2170 and their ancestor's enslavement. Then, there will be some more diffuse claims. Also, the town as a whole will have some more socialized costs, which will need be remedied by different sortsof programs.
Bottom line, you can't let these damages go on. They cost to much to the town, and there's a party which is still benefitting unfairly from the damage they caused. If you have the opportunity to repair the harm, it should be done right?
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