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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

So you’re saying that, in order to maximize evil, we should kill the baker?

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If maximizing evil is the goal, killing the baker is the best thing you can do. Those people will eat some temporary bread and then go on starving. What’s worse, is more people will starve as well.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 9 points 6 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 6 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 6 days 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 6 days ago

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Now we're making progress towards a plan.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And poison his bread.