“- - - we don’t want people starving to death - rhat’s too high a price to pay for total stupidity and greed. Give them minimum ‘rice and beans’? Stuff to keep them alive but not nessarily ‘happy’....”
From a humanitarian standpoint I agree with you. But IMO life cannot always be ruled by humanitarian deeds that eventually cause suffering to continue.
Starving people promotes revolution. Revolution is something Venezuela needs badly. They need to realize that they need a government that promotes self sufficiency of the population. Socialism does just the opposite. Giving them “minimum rice and beans” is doing exactly what the government they perpetually vote in has done. Why should they change their ways if someone else steps in and “gives” them basic essentials of life?
From a logical point of view I agree with you. Often the most miserable human situations are created out of the best of (poorly thought out) intentions.
There are solutions - switching incentives somehow - but they aren’t known yet.