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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
 Couldn't afford it you mean. It wasn't a planned genocide. Just no one thought the poor were worth saving. Not sure what is worse. Deliberatly starving a population as you hate them. Or letting them starve as it would cost money to save them.
  Doing the most Stupid and evil thing possible  seems to be the British states approach to Ireland.
gpt
I mean, the latter is literally the American philosophy. Just look at our healthcare system and hate for the poor.