Starving people are more grateful to get food / have access. But...cruelty comes in different ways...
People often say "but what about food" for whatever horror banks / government are doing.
There is little worth easy food for what we get in return - more problems and expectation to work more...
People are not grateful for man-made restrictions to access and financially cooking people alive using food as the medium for a lure / trap / usury.
I consider it cruelty and cause of suffering for people to ride others like that even if it's not obvious by top-level people who putt arbitrary / keep-them-working numbers to things just to maximise people / tax etc... basically things are whatever it means to them (increasingly crazy and meaningless life) and keeps people sending them money and %'s through a system (of getting money)...
Those people pay the minimum for us, take the profit and often go to #war with it too because they don't care ultimately otherwise they would find a way to talk and care and make most people happen (I feel it's the opposite and they are totally not interested).
People more interested in warring on their own people and others- can't be trusted.
Grow your own food, get out of traps etc...