“One possible way to counteract this, and reclaim some agency in the process, is with a guild model. Navigators throughout history have self-organised and collectively bargained their own terms, from the corpora naviculariorum of antiquity, who were navigators responsible for feeding Rome, to the Hanseatic League, a decentralised network of navigators who had their own embassies, amassed their own armies, and held power for centuries…”

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