The children yearn for the Guild
threadly reminder that the French Revolution banned the guilds and this lead to an immediate collapse in worker protections and professional standardsthey literally banned unions and collective bargaining at the same time, which is hilarious when you mention it in passing to leftists hopped up on le mis and republican propagandathey also relied on fiat currency and that went as well as you might expectwhat a fucking disaster
>>18440949But all the nobles cooks had to open restaurants and provide fine dining for the plebs, so not a total disaster
There's an episode in the British detective tv series "Endeavour" (a prequel to the Inspector Morse tv series) where heraldry plays a part and the herald who detectives visit mentions the main character's heraldry associated with his name.
>>18440953you mean to such venerable types as the Marquis de Sade, who proclaimed from the Bastille bars to the idiot crowds outside using an improvised megaphone made of tin he got somehow that they were killing prisonersthat was a lie, of coursebut soon after, the Bastille was stormed anywaysarbitrary politically motivated price fixing forced bakers, among others, to sell at a steep loss until they were impoverished and forced out of buisnessyes they were literally forced by law to buy grain from suspicious types at a steep price, and then turn around and sell their own product at a price much lower than what it cost to purchase the grainand then they were executed when their "neighbors" (imported Italian criminals, serving as Jacobin thugs among the sans cullotes, were primarily responsible for the September massacre of prisoners) accused them of hording grain after being forced to close by necessity some of their children eventually fought back against the murderous blood drinkers (this fact, the sanguine thirst of these half naked axemen, is neither exaggeration nor propaganda as some would protest but a sickening report from eyewitnesses testifying to the wanton debauchery of these libertine and desecrating butchers), with long twisted staves they called "constitutions", and prevailed against the baying mob block by block over the course of a few months even though they were outnumbered nearly ten to onethese heroes are known by such names as the Muscodins and Merveilleuses, though they called themselves the Golden Youthit's worth noting that these truly innocent middle class Parisians were among the early supporters and even mainstays of the revolution, and that many of these same valorous street fighters and singers who avenged them would be callously gunned down by Bonaparte in that famed "whiff of grapeshot" while they defended still their constitution from the very frontthe revolution literally eats it's own, and you call it "fine dining"
>>18440939Modern guilds in America, the Screenwriter Actors Guild, the National Association of Realtors, American Medical Association, American Arbitration Association, the American Bar Association Although technically legally they can't themselves prevent you from working in the industry (only government bodies can prohibit you) they represent they hold so much power in the industry if they don't like you they can make it very hard for you to find work
