Feudalism Funded, Free Enterprise Need Not Apply

Telling it like it is. Someone's got to do it so we can find a better way. Out with the Old! In with the New!

The classic Mother and Baby Seal by Andersen Design. Photo by Mackenzie Andersen

I am in a unique position to view the wealth redistribution economy. Andersen Design practices in a creative industrial field populated with non-profits.

I can testify that within the crafts world, the non-profit world holds the free enterprise world in disdain. Although the non-profit world claims to be “for the public good’ It habitually excludes individuals and free enterprise from its definition of “the public”, even as non-profit organizations engage in the free enterprise market, changing all the long-established rules of that market to the advantage of the non-profit organizations and the disadvantage of the artisans.

There is The Center For Maine Crafts. Years ago when it opened its store along the Maine Turnpike in Gardiner, I was considering joining the Maine Crafts Association which was in partnership with the Maine Turnpike Authority in bringing this retail craft store about. However, to prese…