The Queuing Economy in Venezuela

Hugo Chavez and his socialist successors in Venezuela have indeed created jobs for lower skilled workers there. You can now be employed as a "queue worker".  A queue worker is someone who gets paid to stand in line to purchase basic items -- such as mile, sugar, diapers, shampoo  -- that are in short supply due to government economic policies. Read the article here. It's a little hard to see how you could build a vibrant economy based on paying others to stand in line, but apparently the Venezuelan government is determined to try.