at about 3:40 they start talking about this part i'm pointing out

yes?

tories are trade protectionists, so he can't undercut grain prices.
wigs were "similerly hardcore when it came to free trade economics"

ah, i think i found one of the places I may have made a mistake, my mind put the comma in the wrong place on my first viewing.

well alright then

god damn it, all this griping about food has actually gotten me hungry

still not enough to change my stance on the Extra Credits people.

and i still got more then half of this set to go.

I like most of what EC does

I like their history and sci fi

The board game they made is actually really fun, I played it at my library

they have a board game?

I used to like them, until a point where i stopped agreeing with them on their newer stuff.

Yeah, it's a political style game where you fight people over influence by sabotaging and compromising in equal measure

Victory is measured not only in how you were able to spin policy but by how well off your party is at the end of the game

wow

You can even intentionally fail certain aspects to hurt other players that have an overlapping victory condition, it's got a lot of depth with very simple mechanics

Sounds like a good way to freeze friendships

So like if you and bob both want global warming related projects to be defunded, you can hurt bob by aligning yourself with a party that wants to fund global warming related projects, thereby denying him the points for success while possibly also getting yourself a boost in, say, criminal justice reform.

so its a game geared toward the ambiguous and multi-agenda nature of modern legislation

that's brilliant

It really is

so, I have found another point where extra credits points to "alongside a commitment to non intervention in the free market" as part of the reason things got so bad.
this time it is in number 3 at about 4:15 or so.

oh, and he is still talking about how this policy is about "protecting the free market"

yes, market obsession exaserbated the problem. that's not a partisan comment, that's fact

the markets only go bad when messed up by the government in the first place

and the british government in general made the whole fucking thing worse, not just economically, yes

sectarian tensions were more prevalent than economic concerns

ok, but Extra Credits keep pointing out how so much of this was somehow in service to free markets, when most of this problem was started by the government intervention in markets before the potato rot happend.

....... no? that's not even mentioned. the only thing mentioned before the rot was Irish disenfranchisement is basically all areas of british life

only when the rot had begun and parliament took notice did the PM take action

are you being sarcastic right now?

no, dude, that's literally how the first video went

ok, and "Irish disenfranchisement is basically all areas of british life" would be the government intervention i'm talking about.

how the fuck is denying Irish land owners the right to leave a whole tract of land to their eldest an intervention on the grain market?!

it's not, but it IS an intervention in the market itself.

the market isn't just one item, or even a set of items.

it's everything taken together.

and anytime the government pokes at any of it problems always crop up.

what fucking invisible hand superstitious horseshit is this? One of the pros of bringing in American corn meal is that it wasn't in the same market as british grain, and therefore wouldn't affect prices

and the EC guys talking about how there was any sort of "free market" going on there is just plain wrong when the people in question had been forced into some of this situation by the government's past interventions.

that was what EC said the guy hoped, but the "grain" market may as well have been the "food" market.