Moral dilemas (SMBC)

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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

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

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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.

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If I want to kill someone, I do not care about whatever consequences or effects it will have. That fucker is as good as dead.

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most CEOs don't organize anything, that's ironically what middle management does. the CEOs job is to maximize the amount of value extracted for the feudal lords

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Said someone who's never baked before, or known a baker, or have watched any culinary show. Following one simplified recipe and hope it turns out alright? You haven't learned baking as a trade. Might as well say Plumbing or Carpentry is easy. Sure they can glue two pipes together. But, can they design and implement a fully functioning DWV system that's up to code? I would rather rewire an entire house's electrical system than spend a whole day trying to figure out why I can't knead this fucking dough right.

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Penny Arcade did a strip recently about the comic strip essentially being undead, as they have no ability to kill it off

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Nice how people always assume someone knows nothing of a subject they proclaim knowledge of innit. I do and have baked more than a couple things iny life Mr. knowitall

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We're talking about a bakery, so it would be quite different than regular store bought bread.

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Then there is no problem. I get what I want, people who need bread get what they want. Everyone wins!*

^*Well, not the baker.^

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A baker ≠ a rich CEO.

The baker works for a living, if nothing else.