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Originally Posted by Solace
It's tragic, but recovery isn't going to be on the horizon for decades, not without massive international support. Economically, Haiti ranks as one of the worst off nations in the world. Education is nonexistent. Poverty is rampant. With the quake, what little infrastructure the country had is decimated. There is no government, no power, supply lines are almost nonexistent...it's bad.
While everyone is pushing to get relief in, the real problems are going to involve picking up the pieces of a roughly 9 million people nation that just lost what little it had. Who picks up the tab for rebuilding? Who will stay involved with helping them get back on their feet? Those are going to be tough questions with even tougher answers after the end of the week. Search and rescue efforts are going to turn into corpse retrieval in a few days, but what nations are going to stay and help and what nations are going to scale back after the immediate relief has been handled?
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The absolute practical solution for this, as always, is free euthanasia. No I am not joking, what is the point of living if all of it has always been in agony?
What investors can actually do, is to build factories and homes. Both sides win because it create jobs and shelter at a relatively low cost, which means larger profits for the factory-owners and their companies. With the ground already leveled, costs can be saved for de-ruralisation, and I am sure the locals would be happy to welcome new homes and a place to work in rather than picking through rubbish piles for scraps everyday.
Container homes/schools are fast to put down and can last for quite some time, they just need interior refurbishment. So instead of pitching tentages like every other retarded disaster relief force, while not better the lives of these people who have never had a stable luxury of a proper shelter?
Disaster relief in poor countries are long term endeavours, as compared to developed/ing ones. Tackling it in a different strategy might yield gains.