guild-like

Secretive, guild-like, announcing its verdicts from a position of absolute authority, marginalizing any non-approved research and discriminating against newcomers.

Medicine pays so well because it has a medieval guild-like structure which controls the numbers of who can enter the profession.

It used to be that expertise in some field or area would last generations, and guild-like systems of master/apprentice developed in response.

Just as with unions, since they invariably turn into choice- and freedom-restricting guild-like entities.

Countries are quite different than American ones, in that they are more guild-like cooperatives (working along with business and government) rather than largely adversarial.

In the western world at least, it's the last surviving guild-like institution.

A staggering amount of money is funneled through that profession, which as I understand it exercises guild-like control over the MLS databases.

I have often felt that programming would do well to have a guild-like system.

But this requires a Guild-like organization to manage interviewing/vetting and for companies to use said Guild for hiring.

This would be an excellent resource, is technically achievable, and would further the worthwhile (in my judgment) goal of undoing the guild-like control over legal knowledge once held by the lawyers.

I have a nasty suspicion that far fewer of them will be, that CS and SE based professions will end up collapsing and consolidating into a handful of AI megacorporations and a guild-like elite of AI-herders will be what's left.

Unless there is a path to obtaining material comfort outside of a free-market economy, the only people with comfortable lives will be those who start their lives with capital, those who win the genetic lottery, and those who have a strong guild-like organization putting a thumb on the scales on their behalf.

I find it interesting that the two examples he gives of "proper professions" are highly regulated guild-like professions whose values are artificially inflated, at least to some degree.