>There will never be shortages or famines like the Irish potato famine. There will, because the potato famine wasn't caused by lack of money, it was caused by

>There will never be shortages or famines like the Irish potato famine. There will, because the potato famine wasn't caused by lack of money, it was caused by monoculture, historically poor land management practices encouraged by foreign interests, and genocidal tendencies on the part of the English. If the Irish people had the ability to arbitrarily print money the way you suggest, they still would have been starving because the English would have taken the money AND the food.