alt Hacker NewsOn a related note, many famous famines went from stressful-but-survivable bad harvests to mass casualty events because of mismanagement: the Irish Potato Famine, the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward...
It seems the villain here could be the Chilean government, for prioritizing the tech economy over the people at a time when it matters most.
Turns out the real villains were the unlikely friendships between capitalists and government neoliberalism created along the way.