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82. Guild system can be criticized for some things

but artisans generally owned their means of production and could barter with their products for food and raw materials with peasants on equal basis without threat of violence. Guild systems were based, as said, on social capital, not on financial and industrial capital which depend from threat of violence and government hierarchy, and some forms of creating that social capital remain to this date, e.g. joyrneyman tradition which is very much alive and strong especially in Germany. Apprentices travel around for a long period and work for free for anyone needing their professional assistance. The guild system social capital was based on code of honor to guarantee quality of products and respect for other members of community.

Compare that with capitalistic industrial production logic which demands that products are made not to last but to break down so that there is continuous demand for more products of poor quality.