Either way, it was a disaster, and I am certainly not arguing that greed played no part.
I agree that greed and stupidity are the two biggest causes of disasters.

What I mean by another story is that it gets into the manor system, business politics, cash crops, subsistence crops, absentee landlords, plantation economies, market distortions caused by foreign trade, the role the English House of Lords played, and all sorts of such stuff.

We could look at modern examples in South America, India, Asia and Africa.

But this forum is not for that type of story, so I won't go there.

I would bet that we would find we mostly agree about what made the Irish problem with failed potato crops so much worse than it should have been, if we were discussing it.