But to impose it on a grand scale, which is what it would need to be, demands a large, powerful, governing body. In the olden days, that was a guild. The problem becomes that when there is no legal competition, there is little to push quality. It becomes what many in small towns see in their grocery stores. You pay top dollar for bad or rotten products.
In the US today, there are still a few guilds in areas like coffin making. They are very jealous of their market, and ruthless in protecting it. Hence why a $1,500 casket is marketed at $10,000.
I don’t want to impose my values on a grand scale. I have no desire to rule over people.
I believe that there are a set of cultural and moral conditions that must obtain for political and economic freedom to be possible. And this moral condition is not ruthlessness. The loss of freedom that we are experiencing is a consequence of moral decay.
The funeral industry is still every bit the scam it was when Jessica Mitford exposed it...