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Interesting read, I never understood why Haiti has had so many financial issues over the years. I think France and the US should pay off all its debts as restit
by jmclnx 4y ago
Interesting read, I never understood why Haiti has had so many financial issues over the years.
I think France and the US should pay off all its debts as restitution to what was done over the years.
- 0des 4y ago
- sitkack 4y agoRighting a wrong is never satire.
- brnaftr361 4y agoWell for one, it's a nation, which is a legal fiction. Haiti and Haitians are not the same thing. That is to say all the previous action of said nation, including the accrual of debts, hadn't ought to be a real liability to the Haitian people. It's precisely inheriting your parent's debt on a magnitude that is baffling. Moreover if one examines the rate of interest it's quite probable that the sum total of principal has been paid. Finally, they had ought to be allowed to default. Risk is one of the reasons given to justify interest, if the lender isn't actually accepting risk, the interest should be close to nothing. If anything such debts had ought to be forgiven simply as a product of the moral imperative of noblesse oblige. What it really is, is a smokescreen for imperialism to keep the capital gradient in check and forward the Western agenda.
- systemvoltage 4y agoWhy should I pay something that happened centuries ago and I have nothing to do with it? Collectivism at its worst.
- uoaei 4y agoBecause you benefit from the society those actions created. There is a direct causal through-line between those actions and some of the benefits you enjoy.
- systemvoltage 4y agoI’m an immigrant to USA.
- sudosysgen 4y agoSo, you are benefitting.
- systemvoltage 4y agoHow? Precisely? I’ll vote unequivocally against any reparations. It’s illogical, immoral and unjust.
- pessimizer 4y agoTransitivity. I think if you can't take responsibility for the sins of the US, you shouldn't get a vote. Votes are for people who are all-in.
- systemvoltage 4y agoRevoking my vote is the very opposite of the spirit of American democracy. The biggest problem America faces is the rise of collectivism (and also Fascism from the right). California leading the pack. I didn't come to America to be part of a socialist nation which wants equality of outcome. The strength of USA, and I would say uniquely, is in individualism, freedom, rights and its core founding principles. This is probably the most offensive thing you can say to anyone. It is so strange to see young generation of this place veering towards Autoritarian socialist nation. We've seen how that turns out (North vs South Korea, Cambodia, USSR, Cuba). Universities in the US is the hotbed for this non-sense. Regarding reparations, Russia paying reparations after the war to Ukraine? Probably OK. Woke Russians 600 years later telling the new generation to feel guilty about what Putin did 6 centuries ago? NOT OK. Immigrants are the probably the most American people in US it feels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4E9usD_4Fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4E9usD_4Fo
- stjohnswarts 4y agoI agree. I am all for helping struggling nations move forward but when I hear reparations, I just change the channel. Come back and talk to me when you remove that from your vocabulary. Reparations just beget more reparations and don't fix the rot at the core of the Haitian government or any other. Just like removing all college debt would just be a bandaid and the problem would still be there. It requires fundamental chance to fix things, throwing cash at it and changing nothing won't