tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post1796904474767351736..comments2023-09-23T10:03:52.824-07:00Comments on HGL's F.B. writings: Part II, more on Guilds than on Holy Roman EmpireHans Georg Lundahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-79728308588186192682011-04-09T02:24:10.289-07:002011-04-09T02:24:10.289-07:00In the US, big or small companies are licensed by ...In the US, big or small companies are licensed by the state, under guilds - this did not apply on the countryside, since only towns contained sufficient number of non-agrarian colleagues to make a guild and thus only towns were directly under guilds, rural areas had no licensing problems - small companies were licensed by the small companies that were colleagues and the whole group had a contract with the town, abusing which their licensing could be dispensed with.<br /><br />In towns, a cobblers daugher would much more probably be lacing the shoes her father was going to sell. A girl selling lemonades would still have been no anomaly if the father wass into the lemonade business. Mr Coca-Cola company, whoever that is, would not have been entitled to keep Coke recipe secret from all the world and produce his extract in uttermost secrecy in one place transporting it from there to everywhere else. He would, like the first apothecary who invented coke, be producing his goods on place and other producing similar goods elsewhere. But sure his daughter would have been entitled to sell lemonades, since she was her fathers daughter.<br /><br />The lemonade selling children are a very nice feature of US towns in summer, if ever guilds came to US (they left England under Elizabeth Boleyn right back when Virginia and Maryland were being colonised) they would be as locally American or Kansan or Kansas Citadine as to accomodate that custom. If they came otherwise, they would not be guilds.<br /><br />But the popularity of the phenomenon shows that probably a lot of parents would like to buy and sell on their own too, and cannot. Because governmental licensing requirements are made so that initial costs are insurmoutable without a loan.<br /><br />When the little girl closed down, what were the thirsty people drinking instead? A locallly brewed beer? Or a coke produced at the other end of the Union?Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-54971479525703326552011-04-08T08:33:43.511-07:002011-04-08T08:33:43.511-07:00On closing down of a lemonade stand in US ...
- p...<a href="http://www.colleenhammond.com/politics/govt-shuts-down-crying-little-girls-lemonade-stand/" rel="nofollow">On closing down of a lemonade stand in US ...</a><br /><br />- probably, under guilds, there were no little girls making lemonade stands in HRE. If one had tried, probably it would not have been allowed:<br /><br />-- if there was a lemonade sellers guild (which there is not in US)<br />-- or since she was too young for running business OR<br />-- since she was an unmarried woman (compare female secretaries in US, which HRE had not);<br /><br />- but a town or city authority could override the guild regulation;<br />- and girls selling lemonade are anyway about customary small business (yes, they are a custom in US, and I enjoy ice tea from those), a thing guilds were made to protect and the new regulations over there in this case are not protecting - or were not. I've got to reread end of article.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3413387109542176983.post-17323459712896162812011-04-07T09:09:00.830-07:002011-04-07T09:09:00.830-07:00Explaining Holy Roman Empire in terms of comparing...<a href="http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2011/04/explaining-holy-roman-empire-in-terms.html" rel="nofollow">Explaining Holy Roman Empire in terms of comparing to US. - Pt I </a><br /><a href="http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-ii-more-on-guilds-than-on-holy.html" rel="nofollow">Part II, more on Guilds than on Holy Roman Empire</a><br /><a href="http://hglsfbwritings.blogspot.com/2011/04/holy-roman-empired-explained-for-us-but.html" rel="nofollow">Holy Roman Empire explained for US, but we are heading back for Rome now, Pt III</a>Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.com