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Are they any Real World examples of "guild" vs "union"?

About the US healthcare expenses: When you travel on holiday, you can buy pretty reasonable travel insurance. For example (no shilling): You can get one week of healthcare coverage from World Nomads for 130 AUD. Not so bad.

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Unfortunately the only “real world” examples I can personally think of for craft guilds are from more than a century ago, making them quite poor examples of the practice in a modern context. However if your not opposed to a little bit of history, I’d recommend checking out the history of craft guilds which goes back well over a millennium and it represents one of the earliest forms of “qualification” outside of religious or spiritual contexts (since determining if you have a suitable priest of Zeus, etc… has basically been a thing since forever)

130 AUD for a week is considered reasonable?? For travel insurance even?

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