Read the following passage:

The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.
To what real-world problem from Swift's time is the narrator referring?
A. Livestock deaths due to disease
B. The extremely low value of the English pound
C. Poor management of Irish lands by English lords
D. The poor work ethic of farmers in Ireland