Given the context of the recent heroic event it’s important to remember that not only is it not the baker putting up the barrier but it is someone who actually probably can’t even do their job of doing nothing very well.
Killing the baker may lead to a problem where the bread runs out, but I suppose it’s also a good example of how baking is not magic and we could figure it our well enough to not need to put up with someone who would willingly let people starve.
Yup. The baker isn’t the one that owns the bakery. They don’t own the mills. They don’t own the farms.
Instead, what’s happened is one mega corporation has bought most of the bakeries, they set prices to the maximum level possible and have backroom negotiations with mills that an independent baker can’t get in the room to make. The mills do the same thing with the farms. And the farms are all consolidating into few owners who get to run on almost no employees (It doesn’t take a lot to run a modern farm). Further, the mega farms and mills end up driving small time farmers out of business because the mills won’t cut deals with small time farmers like they will with the megafarmers.
At every layer, there is some MBA asshole idiot justifying his parasitic existence because he thinks nobody else is as smart as him (even though he likely got the business because of his daddy or his wife’s daddy). He hordes the excess funds but builds himself a nice big house.
Dude, people on Lemmy freak it if they don’t have their Starbucks coffee and their multiple online subscriptions.
They will categorically not learn to make bread, instead they will flock to Uber eats for those sweet points
People in here don’t have any idea on how hard being a baker is.