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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But then you need to set up a cult to keep on killing bakers, because there are incentives for someone else to take up the mantle.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

or you take over operations, adulterate the bread with sawdust while selling the good stuff only to the 1% who can afford it. Also, maybe make it an overpriced subscription, where in order to have the privilege of buying bread, you also have to pay per loaf, too.

If that sounds like corpo-shit... that's because it is.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then you might as well lightly poison the regular bread to keep the poor feeling like shit and preventing them from improving their life. You can still sell the premium, non-poisoned bread to the rich.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

also placing some of the antidote into "herbal" remedies. to make even more money off them.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Now we're making progress towards a plan.