Every Guild and every Guildsman would have to adapt himself to the wants of the community, just as all of us who work for our living have to do now.
The Guildsman says that the producer ought to decide what he shall produce and what is to be done with it when he has produced it.
The Guildsman might be happier in the feeling that he worked for a Guild rather than a capitalist employer, but this is by no means certain.
But if so, what will happen to the Guildsmanas consumer?
Every guildsman had to work himself in propriâ personâ; no contractor was tolerated who himself "in ease and sloth doth live on the sweat of others, and puffeth himself up in lustful pride.
The crafty guildsman had avoided the Giant's traps and there found the two geese squatting upon their bed of minerals.
And, according to the contract drawn up between the Guild of Egg-stealers and the League of Giants, a guildsman seized within the precincts of a castle must serve the goose's owner for two years.
