I'm getting so sick of entrenched institutions and organizations acting like this. I know history and I know that is has always been like this to some degree but it seems that the level of centralization brought about our ability to rapidly communicate is causing us to revert more and more to entrenched powerful interests, and whereas before you could run away to somewhere new, a new town, a new country, a new frontier now you can't escape it.
The powerful multi-billionaires and oligarchs are the new fueduel Lords who are wheeling and dealing and playing their own little games not caring about the millions of people effected by their decisions.
We now see the guild is making a come back to ensure only those that toe the party line are allowed to profit from a business.
What can we do to fight it?