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The closest thing to this is probably various medical unions and teacher unions which are worse than police unions but still great if you're a corrupt employee... the benefits typicallly are pretty lousy.

Local protection of unions would be better, unfortunately nobody really believes in the whole "fighting for your right to say it" thing, shit would turn into a racket benefiting the higher guilds in no time and then you'd be behind the same teacher, police and various medical union employees in no time paying high union dues with even less benefit. Eventually even these government employees would demand more and the "lower" guilds would pay the price.

It's funny, as much as the middle class hates the lower, they sure as fuck depend on them for a LOT in the future. Tons.

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What you're talking about is more like mainstream Syndicalism. Corporatists don't like worker's unions because they're easily infiltrated by Communists, and don't do much other than hurt the economy and steal worker's wages to pay the salaries of corrupt union bosses.

We support right to work legislation, but believe every worker should be a member of a government-sponsored guild for their trade. Corporatism would look more like the Director's Guild, which has done a pretty good job at self-regulating the film industry, but it's been infiltrated by Communists — but to be fair, the entire country's been infiltrated, so it would be unfair to single them out.

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I'd still rather pay corrupt union bosses, tbh; at least there's an actual person there who is more likely to be blamed when they fuck up.

Not everyone can be a director, technocrat or a lawyer. And the only reasons M. Night Shamalamalan, Jeff Bozo, Mark "Fucking Morons" Zuckerberg and Johnny Cochrane would ever need unions would be to supersede their respective corporations like the google employees.

Subversive people are always the most paranoid of people and organizations exactly like themselves.