Baking is an easy trade to learn. Put the greedy stodge through the slicer forthwith
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Sure, that would be worse than a few starving people getting some bread temporarily. If the baker is dead then there will be more starving people then we started with.
Wait, wasn't that the point? I thought the post point was for the people to have bread for like 5 minutes and then die horribly of hunger later because they don't know how to turn on the oven correctly without starting a fire and forget about even knowing how to mix the flour and yeast in the correct proportions and time to not create inedible lumps of overcooked flour
Generally, bakers are blue collar hardworkers who do not gluttonously hoard their resources and instead sell at prices necessary for sustainability with a modest to moderate level of profit margins; eliminating one baker would reduce the number of skilled workers who know how to produce goods/services critical to society. The same cannot be said about people in certain other positions whom the aforementioned hypothetical you might instead want to kill.
If the artist believes that bakers’ role in society is not comparable to certain parasitic roles, that subtext has been lost in the satiric trope inversion.
Edit: Apparently this is an old comic, so the inferred modern subtext is not the artist’s intent. I was trying to think of a better scenario for what the artist was trying to convey. You want to kill a child but the child has O- blood and is registered for organ donation upon death?
This feels like a slightly odd take for SMBC given the assumed subtext
Bakers have skills and contribute to their communities, unlike ceos. I don’t think it’s relevant to Luigi
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I went to a house and I asked for some bread
And the lady says, "scram, bum, the baker is dead"
Hallelujah, I'm a bum
Hallelujah, bum again
Hallelujah, give us a handout
To revive us again
Why are we killing bakers?
Just go to your nearest chain supermarket and shoplift!