This is his livelihood.
Exactly. I could be his friend. ~Pay for his supplies, and I have expensive taste.
Who would be able to say how much I pay for supplies?
Are the bolsheviks going to check each and every cake he bakes for friends and compute the costs?
We have to be much much smarter to work around what’s happening in this world. Russians worked around the USSR system, they had to. We need to do the same.
We are told to be as mild as doves and as wise as serpents.
We can stand, but we have to do it in such a way to confound the system.
Ok, ok, ok...I am a bit confused here. How do they MAKE him bake a cake?
Do they throw him in jail if he refuses? This commission cannot do that. A judge must do that.
I would tell them to pound sand.