Venezuelans Marked With Numbers to Stand in Grocery Store Lines, 2014

[Weedygarden]

I just saw that this is from 2014.

I often wondered about how it would come to people accepting the mark of the beast? I also have often thought that things come in one small step at a time, until there is no question about why you have taken the next step. First a permanent marker, then a tattoo or a chip? Food shortages will cause desperate people to do things that they previously wouldn't have thought they would for the sake of their families especially. Given that this was in 2014, I also think that things are done in small places, as experiments, to see what people will do and how they will react. I believe that there are think tanks who plan, follow, and study many situations like this in the world. Call me paranoid!

https://www.businessinsider.com/ven...sxrzML-66IAkhho6YK_yTgI1VAY807Zuj3OjLN5pllw6I

 

[VThillman]

1) State socialism probably functions much more smoothly when its citizens are numbers. Personalities clog the drains.
2) I know approximately nothing about small town Venezuela. In Mexico, away from the influence of metropolitan life, standing in line at a grocery store counter is not done. The notion of being served in the order of arrival is pretty much incomprehensible. You are served when the server specifically recognizes you.

 

[Weedygarden]

1) State socialism probably functions much more smoothly when its citizens are numbers. Personalities clog the drains.
2) I know approximately nothing about small town Venezuela. In Mexico, away from the influence of metropolitan life, standing in line at a grocery store counter is not done. The notion of being served in the order of arrival is pretty much incomprehensible. You are served when the server specifically recognizes you.

I have had people tell me that when they were in other parts of the world, sometimes it is about who pushes the hardest who gets served sooner. Italy is one of those places. Some people work with lines, some do not.