> But the loss to Haiti cannot just be measured by adding up how much was paid to France and to outside lenders over the years.
> Every franc shipped across the Atlantic to an overseas bank vault was a franc not circulating among Haiti’s farmers, laborers and merchants, or not being invested in bridges, schools or factories — the sort of expenditures that help nations become nations, that enable them to prosper.
The cost of reparations versus the impact is different. The impact is a guesstimate, the cost isn’t.
> Every franc shipped across the Atlantic to an overseas bank vault was a franc not circulating among Haiti’s farmers, laborers and merchants, or not being invested in bridges, schools or factories — the sort of expenditures that help nations become nations, that enable them to prosper.
The cost of reparations versus the impact is different. The impact is a guesstimate, the cost isn’t.