The kind Basotho are looking out for my best interests

I was at a café-type-place eating lunch last week and was especially hungry so I ordered 2 dishes (a chicken mayo sandwich and a steak roll and chips, if you are interested). I was told no by the waitress; I cannot order 2 dishes – “it would be too much”. I insisted that I did want both plates and that I was very hungry.

She eventually relented but when the food came she had decided that it should be a chicken salad rather than a sandwich. It was very kind of her to be looking out for my best interests. Thinking about it, it is probably no different from me deciding to lend money for fertilizer but not a TV – just looking out for you! Do we all know what is best for each other better than we ourselves know?

When I mentioned my difficulties getting the food that I wanted to another ex-pat here, he told me that he once had the same problem; he tried to order two panini at the airport and was informed that he could not have two of them. One would be enough.

I am wondering whether bosses should stop paying in cash and pay salaries in a basket of goods that they clearly know to be in the best interests of their workers...