I wonder if this is lessons learned from Zimbabwe (starve the dissidents) or like the previous post, the regime is starting to destruct. The leader is crazy as a loon, and I keep wondering about that railroad explosion that "just missed" him - wonder if that set him off.
Each person in those nations are seen as an expense. Since when do you feed the expense column? It's like raising goats or other livestock. Lot's of potential use, so you let them breed and let them feed off your patures. At some point the number who feed exceeds the passive method of sustaining them and intensive feedings of costly stored feeds needs to be done, or you send half your goats to slaughter if you keep using the same primitive schemes in production. People are no different. We just have the luxury of having social systems which are extremely cognisant of productivity and it's vital role. Capitalism has done more to improve the quality of humanity than one can ever imagine. Sure it's full of Dickens-like tales, but such tales mean nothing to say those unfortunate enough to live in the Congo or Zimbabwe, or the Sudan, or North Korea....or Chad......etc...