You need to live there. You pretty well described everyday life in the Worker’s Caribbean Paradise. During my four year tour in Havana (1993-1997), we had access to food that normal Cubans sure didn’t, at the Diplomatic Store. They haven’t managed to screw up the Cuban cigar industry, and their Havana Club Rum is still the best on the planet. Life for Juan de la Cruz (Cuba’s John Doe) sucks on a daily base. Most of them barely get by on their meager govt rations. The Cubans who worked for us told us that their ration books only lasted two to three weeks of the month; if they didn’t have access to $$$, they did without.
>>You need to live there.
I don’t need to live there to see the self-evident truth that Aquaponics works well enough that even collectivist teat-suckers and Cubans can make it work.
And if they can make it work - imagine what FRee citizens, having inalienable rights that are secured by a government whose purpose is reformed to do so, once again, could produce with it.
‘course, your Collective Milk Mileage may vary.