Are all our historic buildings built on the backs of slaves?

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Frankly, we should demolish ALL buildings since they are all built by exploiting the bodies of the lower classes for the manual labor; and only the rich/upper classes should be allowed to participate in the demolition or it would just end up with exploiting the lower classes for their manual labor in demolishing the very buildings they were exploited to use their manual labor to build.

In one word, no.

Question. I left one company when I found that not only did I find that I had worked there for a few years without being on their books, but I was owed around 400 to 500 hours of accumalitive overtime. Should that company be forced to close?

Most Western countries who had colonies have some very dirty historical hands, and this dirt often takes the shape of massive wealth spent on elaborate monuments, buildings and public works back home.

Ironically, the Germans was actually more or less the "good guys" in Europe before the 20th century, as they relied more on their own productivity and trade rather than the colonialism undertaken by the British, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Belgians, Spanish etc.

Of course, Germany - previously a patchwork of Imperial estates and duchies in the (neither) Holy (nor) Roman (nor an) Empire - didn't become a single country until 1871.

And turn over ownership of the company to the workers, like a co-op.