Yes, in your example, the person who stole the water would have stolen the water.
replyIn real life, in Chile, who "stole all the water" ? How did they "steal" the water?
On 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...
replyIt 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.
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