I think of this as a baker at the nascence of bread-baking factories.

Will you operate the bread baking machine, own a bread factory ($++) or make eco-handmade artisan bread ($--).

Or do something completely different? Trade railway shares?

Clearly the answer is to announce that the baking frontier must slow down. ;)

Bread baking factories could clearly destroy civilization as we know it, create incredible economic inequality, make a permanent underclass, etc etc.

this is a fantastic metaphor. I'm going to borrow it.