One of the things that helped with the relative prosperity of Belfast is that George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall, had amassed huge gambling debts so the family had to sell off their extensive property holdings. This was about the mid nineteenth century. There was something of an industrial boom up until the partition of Ireland.

The economist has ever been part of the machinery of the ratchet effect.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is most instructional in this regard.

At what cost!!?

I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven’t happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.