[Because the gov’t, the military, or the zombies would come and take it and maybe kill them in the process.]
Maybe the zombies only come out when it’s dark... and the urban farms aren’t being filmed.
[Voices from Venezuela: Urban Agriculture]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3aYiHdqYng
Did this work, why... why not?
Maybe the “professionals” were too lazy to farm... or something.
I think the Soviets called them "collective farms". No, it didn't work.
The reasons typically boil down to corruption and lack of incentives.
One of the economic turning points just prior to the fall of the Soviet Union involved the sale of potatoes. The "owners" of the potatoes wanted to transport them to a distant place where the prices were higher. The local government insisted that the potatoes be sold locally at lower prices.
I think it may have been Gorbachev who overruled the local government, allowing the producers to seek the best prices. When I saw this happening, I knew the Soviet Union was dead.
The woman in the video is selling "socialism" not tomatoes. When you see the part of the video talking about "free" meals for the school kids, I see every kid wearing red clothing. This is typically what happens to socialists. They can only afford one type or color of clothing.
A friend of the family grew up in Berlin during the cold war. His cousins lived in East Germany. The socialist economy could only afford one type of water faucet. Almost every faucet in East Germany was identical and looked just like the hose bib outside my house. Socialist first engage in the "one size fits all" economy. Eventually even that one size becomes unavailable through legal channels and must be procured through a black market.
The lack of profit incentives causes socialists to make millions of decisions which are less than optimal. Eventually this acts as sand in the gears of the economy and the system grinds to a halt. Without the machine guns and barbed wire to imprison the people, socialist governments fail even faster than in the past. It took the Soviets 70 years to fail. Venezuela might only take 35.