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capitalist made famine (infosec.pub)
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[–] walden@wetshav.ing 8 points 2 hours ago

I learned from a podcast that famine is almost always caused by government, so this one is not an exception.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 25 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

It wasnt the british stealing their food.

It was the british stealing their land. Griwing food on it using them as indentured labour. Then forcing them to live, effectively, on the only crop that could supoort a family on a small plot. That crop just happened to fail.

Interestingly, the reason they had such small plots was that irish inherotance split all the parents possessions equally, dividing the wealth, making smaller plots. The british system, ut goes to the eldest, leading tonwealth hoarding.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 minutes ago

So it was the British stealing their food with extra steps.

Let's not sugarcoat things just because someone in charge made it perfectly legal.

[–] MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago

Just replying to let you know you kinda fat-fingered a few keys here and there :3

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, and then because they were fully reliant on a single crop to provide their food, when the potato blight reached Europe, the Irish were extra fucked.

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Whatever the reason, it was a famine, a wide spread scarcity of food.

Look the definition up.

[–] Kobibi@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

I mean it was a famine but only because of an overreliance on one specific crop, due to sociopolitical reasons

Normally if one crop fails due to a disease, it won't result in a full-scale famine. Most historical famines are caused by wider climate and weather patterns

So to call it a famine is a little disingenuous, even if its technically accurate