The Price of Bread Is the Price of Obedience

The price of bread is not just about bread. It’s about what you’re willing to tolerate to keep eating.

If food is expensive, you will:

• work more
• compromise more
• put up with more ^{coercionSurvival needs override every other political or personal priority. That’s the entire strategy.}.

When bread is cheap, people get bold.

When bread is free, people get dangerous.

Why the State Fixates on the Grocery Aisle

You can protest injustice.
You can critique policy.
You can hate your boss.

But the moment you stop showing up?

You need to know you will still eat.

If you cannot be certain you’ll eat, then obedience becomes logical ^{rational-obedienceCompliance is not cowardice when the alternative is starvation. It is coerced survival.}.

Hunger is the leash. Food is the leash-release.

The price of bread is the price of freedom.

This is Why So Many Revolutions Start in the Kitchen

Not ideology.
Not manifestos.

Bread.

Hunger makes people docile.
Bread makes them ungovernable.

You don’t need to overthrow a government to threaten it. You just need to make sure everyone eats without asking permission.