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If it were legitimate, "let them eat cake" could be interpreted as a sensible plan. The peasants have no bread? We have cake. Let them have some.
In the original phrase, the word used was not "cake", it was "brioche", which is a kind of French toast. And the thing is you still need bread to make brioche.
The phrase often but wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette, alludes to the ignorance of everyday matters from the ruling class that are too rich to even know how to tie their own shoes.