Timothy Schwartz is an Anthropology PhD who has spent years living and working in Haiti for USAid and various NGOs. TLDR: Haiti isn't in fantastic shape but charity organizations dump out massive amounts of bullshit about the country in order to keep the donations rolling in - and only a tiny fraction of that donated money actually ends up in Haiti helping people.
If you want to become a billionaire you go into military profiteering. If you want to be a billionaire and be admired for your supposed moral superiority, you go into charity. We don't call it the humanitarian industrial complex for no reason.
Free speech isn't a bad thing, people shouldn't be censored for being fucking morons especially a tweet like this. It's a little scary how the left/progressives have done a complete 180 on free speech in the last like, 10 years.
I always though the twitter community fact check was a very good control on tweets like this though, someone says something dumb and you get a direct community-voted response attached to the bottom of it. Resulted in some hilarious owns.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure much of the shantytowns in Haiti could be described as having shacks. It's a very depressing situation there with no easy solutions.
Shantytowns exist, but do most people in Haiti live in them? Or is that just the perception because news media makes more money portraying it that way?
At least on German Wikipedia it says that 58.5 % of the population in Haiti live below the relative (!) poverty line. Over two thirds of the people at employable age are said to not have a regular job. More than half are malnourished.
Is the overall consensus in the USA that the situation in Haiti is much better than what is written on Wikipedia?