Topic: The Irish "potato famine"
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 weeks ago #122,600
You mean England stealing their food?
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 27 minutes later[^] [v] #1,337,965
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,337,967
The English potato thieves famine
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 55 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,337,970
If by "stealing their food", you mean "purchasing goods", then yes.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 2 weeks ago, 11 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,338,021
I mean, if it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day, you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater. If they could afford to emigrate then they could afford to eat in a modest restaurant.
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They only grew one type of potato so when there was a potato sickness it wiped out all their potatoes.
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@previous (A)
Irish farmer were able to sell their crops at a higher price because Ireland didn't happen to have the highest prices in the empire, and any savvy businessman will play arbitrage.
The higher prices meant higher profits for farmers, enabling them to buy agricultural productivity tools from other parts of the empire, improving living standards and increasing yields in the future.
If you're an unemployed drunk, you don't want free trade because then someone else can outbid you. Closed markets mean the farmers are captive to cheap consumers. Lazy people refused to adapt, didn't take the new jobs that the money coming in created, and suffered from their own poor decision making. No one stole anything.
Irish farmer were able to sell their crops at a higher price because Ireland didn't happen to have the highest prices in the empire, and any savvy businessman will play arbitrage.
The higher prices meant higher profits for farmers, enabling them to buy agricultural productivity tools from other parts of the empire, improving living standards and increasing yields in the future.
If you're an unemployed drunk, you don't want free trade because then someone else can outbid you. Closed markets mean the farmers are captive to cheap consumers. Lazy people refused to adapt, didn't take the new jobs that the money coming in created, and suffered from their own poor decision making. No one stole anything.
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Anonymous H replied with this 1 week ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,338,086
@previous (A)
If you bothered to read any documentation about the famine, even from leftist ideologues, their argument is that the English "stole" the potatoes by allowing their export. Farmers still got paid.
If you bothered to read any documentation about the famine, even from leftist ideologues, their argument is that the English "stole" the potatoes by allowing their export. Farmers still got paid.
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Ticofaidh ar la
Erin go bragh
Up the ra
Fuck ur ma
Erin go bragh
Up the ra
Fuck ur ma
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Colonial insect species: ants, bees, british, wasps.
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Bruh, on behalf of the rest of the world that got invaded by England, why can’t we just nuke Britain?