Indeed it is a slippery rope and a lot of politics fail while doing this.
And you could discuss it, because right now there are people starving all over the planet. But the discussion whether or not this is a good idea would fill another hundred pages.
There just is no easy way out.
Not really. It's been tried many times in communist countries. People starved. The free market does it best, because the central planners just don't have enough information and never will.