Capitalist-Wage-Slave vs Guild-Membership-Enjoyer
The difference between working for a company and being part of a guild can be explained with the analogy of different modes of transport.
Working for a company is similar to going on a plane journey. You are subject to the rules of the airline as the ultimate decision maker. When you depart, when you land. Who sits next to you, what you get to eat and how you must behave is all dictated by the airline and airline regulations. Essentially your sphere of control extends only as far as whether you wish to subject yourself those rules in order to get to your destination or not.
The actual choices you get to make are trivial. Where you want to sit, what drink you want with your meal etc. The rest is not up to you. You are just cargo that breathes. Even your relationship with other passengers on the plane is purely transactional. There is no vested interest between passengers beyond basic pleasantries and safe arrival.
The guild is different. It is more like a road trip with friends. Sure there is a designated driver that has ultimate control but he/she is definitively influenced by other passengers in the car. The passengers also have a vested interest in each other. They are concerned with the well being of each other beyond the car journey itself. Though there is personal, individual interest for each passenger in what they want out of the journey, there is collaboration and co-operation on all key matters such as departure time, destination, choice of car, seat placement, when to stop to eat etc. Their bond goes beyond the car journey itself.
It is the difference between a dictatorship (company) and a co-operative (guild).
Guilds were a huge part of Islamic economies, most especially in the Ottoman era. Most tariqas were both a guild and a religious group where the Shaykh was the leader of the guild and both a leader in terms of craft and work as well as in terms of religion/spirituality.
Osman's rise was heavily supported/influenced by the Ahi guild for example, headed up by Shaykh Edebali.
Even in the West, the guilds were so important and became so rich that Kings would turn to guilds for financial support.
A guild permits each member to exercise their own agency and autonomy in achieving their own objectives while contributing to the success of other members of the group and society as a whole.
A company is there to serve the owners only with workers bonded in slavery.
This is what we're trying to build with the Qirad app. A guild system on the Blockchain where people can do business with each other and collaborate without being subject to dictatorship and unnecessary meddling.
via Khuram Malik
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