Mokopa

joined 3 years ago
[–] Mokopa@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] Mokopa@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

England was richer than Ireland? That implies Irish people had some level of choice... Ireland was a colony of the British empire and as such were responsible for it's citizens and the Irish people had no say in where the crops were sold to. Irish people, by and large, couldn't afford those crops anyway and so relied the potatoes they grew. When that failed for consecutive harvests, they starved because the landowners continued to sell the other food sources abroad rather than helping. The invisible hand of the market has little or nothing to do with it because they could never have bought the crops anyway, it was just greed and cruelty.

[–] Mokopa@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Not to mention the waste of power and water.

[–] Mokopa@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

You'd probably have to traffic them alright in because not many would get through immigration with their social media history...

[–] Mokopa@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Prey tell could work too, I doubt victims of either would endorse them.