Moral dilemas (SMBC)

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

But do you want to start work at 5 am every day, and bake bread all day, or do you want to go to the bakery and buy a loaf of bread?

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

They're starving because they bought too many lattes.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

And poison his bread.

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet

Don't you mean "what's even better"?

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Division of labour is not capitalism, trying to do everything by yourself is not anti capitalist (and in fact that extreme individualist fantasy has more to do with capitalism than anything else)

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KILL HIM, HE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE BREAD!

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Guys i found the baker who only bakes expensive bread for rich people, get him!!

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Wouldnt they just stop being bakers? They will all eventually die

I dont think this is a good analogy

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Killing the baker isnt the best thing you can do

Start a cult where no one is allowed to eat bread, having to make all bread poisonous and placing it in a line

You would waste more resources compared to just killing the baker and reduce the risk of another person becoming the baker

They're starving because they refuse to eat anything other than avocado-toast

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Yeah. Meanwhile killing CEOs has no drawbacks because they do nothing of value and horde all the money which can be used for better than just choking the economy for everyone else.

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Good CEO's lead companies to brighter future!

Well, whole two of them, so your chance to kill one by mistake is kinda low, go wild.

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CEOs aren't solely at fault, though. The board of directors is responsible for setting broad policies which might involve increasing profit even at the cost of human lives. And most publicly traded corporations have mission statements that explicitly prioritize profit over all other concerns because otherwise their shares wouldn't be as attractive on the stock market.

Mind you, making the CEO job unattractive will make it harder to find people who implement board policies. But ultimately that's a punctual relief attempt for a systemic issue – the way the stock market operates. Things will not improve as long as we not just allow but require companies to increase profit no matter what.

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It takes longer than that bud, I start the day before.

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I feel ok about this, teach was indicating a specific baker. If she had said "suppose you want to kill a CEO, any CEO" and I were a CEO I'd be worried but that's not what happened. The town was just mad at the prior baker for only making brioche and then charging out the ass for it so they needed to die. I get it.

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Baking is an easy trade to learn. But the greedy stodge through the slicer forthwith

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"Human dragon" is in perhaps a better descriptor for the analogy

UnfortunateShort

I dunno, I think the baker might already give you their bread if you threaten them with death

GladiusB

I wouldn't say that they do nothing of value. Organizing companies has to happen. Is it worth their price? Not even fucking close. But crews cannot run themselves with efficiency. There has to be someone running the ship. But they do not deserve that much more. They get that by being corrupt and appeasing the investors MORE than making a company run correctly.

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The premise is that you want to kill the baker, not that you want their bread.