Bilingual techniques are clearly intended to enrich existing methodologies, and not to impoverish them. He noted how the wealthy plunder and impoverish the poor. Even families descending from wealthy kindreds could impoverish through the regular divisions of their estates. In the process, they distort, corrupt, and impoverish the knowledge in the public domain. However, farm subsidies in developed countries push down food prices and impoverish third-world farmers. This served to further impoverish the small village and greatly reduced its population. Subsequently, the forests were cut down, usually to impoverish the population during the wars. The environmental effects often impoverish tail-end farmers.