The Famine Follies in Ireland

In ireland they were called famine follies. There was quite a few of em, buildings that served no purpose. They were simply built to give starving poor people a job so that they could be paid. To inter n and help em goes against les fair capitalism. So when jonathan swift, in 17 29, wrote a modest proposal, what he was actually doing was taking the piss out of people like william petty who would write these huge tink pieces abos. But how do we solve the problem of poverty without intervening directly? Because that would be wrong.