The Irish weren’t broken but actually oppressed, even unto starving, unlike fake oppressed people from all over the globe for the last 30 years. In any event, if a comparison between 1840s Ireland and modern Mexico were thrown into the arena of native ingenuity, I’d say it’s a toss-up.

Yes I’d hire an Irishman from the dawn of the Victorian age over a modern Mexican in a tech factory based on reputation alone.