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There's an enormous difference. Licensing creates a cartel which restricts competition which in turn raises prices, lowers quality, and violates the rights of all people to earn a living doing whatever peaceful work they choose.
Certification lets the consumer decide who to hire, opens the market up to stiff competition, which in turn lowers prices and improves quality - just like it does in literally millions of other markets.
No, that is precisely why it exists. Milton Friedman studied licensing intensely, and he never found a single case where consumers wanted licensing. Instead, it is always the industry groups who lobby for licensing.
Here is a restaurant in one of the most highly regulated cities in the world:
Regulation (code compliance) does not require using licensed contractors.
Very true.
But certain things will still require a city or county inspector verify to compliance. Gas-Elec-Load bearing-additions etc. etc.
It’s a good idea to get building permits and to have the work done inspected. I encourage my customers to do so and require them to sign waivers for any work not done to code at their specific request.
Licensing protects the home owner or commercial property own.
It's not a cartel pards.
Again, Milton Friedman studied occupational licensing schemes extensively, and he never found one single instance where licensing came about due to consumer demand - it is always lobbied for by the industry groups themselves. The purpose is to restrict entry into the trade which results in much less competition and higher profits for those who are licensed.
If you want to argue the spurious "safety" angle, then shouldn't all gun owners be licensed?
I don't mess around when it comes to permitting and I won't do any work for any homeowner who say's they do want the hassle.
It’s surprising that some fairly major work does not require permits. I built a double (24’ x 24’) carport and the county did not require any permits/inspection at all. Many customers don’t want to get building permits since it often results in a reassessment along with a property tax hike. I warn them that non-permitted additions/structures on the property may not be covered by their insurance.
Virginia Beach is a little more strict than that. I believe we are limited to 256 sq. ft without permitting..
First of all, people who are injured and bleeding shop for a ride to the hospital, as they try to avoid the local government-created ambulance monopolies:
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Second, with a free market in healthcare, you would probably have a healthcare provider lined up before you needed one.
Arguing against professional licensing is what I expect to hear from crackheads loitering at a convenience store. Maybe from someone sleeping on a couch in a trailer. I mean it doesn't get any lower.
And the OP is horrendously stupid. That dumbass mistake has been explained.
I somewhat agree, but that depends on how reasonable the requirements (availability and costs) to obtain a ‘professional’ license are. If a license is granted based only on passing some relevant test (open to all and at a modest fee) then fine, but if the licenses are used (primarily) to limit the number of ‘professionals’ in a given field (e.g. only X number of active licenses are to be issued) then that is objectionable.
2. The OP remains horrendously stupid. People don't care because they trust the system. It's a special kinda stupid to believe the results indicate a desire to do away with professional certification. Impossibly stupid.
"Consumers tend to heavily value prices and online reputation, but not the licensing status of professionals when they're picking whom to hire," Larsen, an assistant professor of economics and faculty fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), said in an interview published on Phys.org. Larsen, Farronato, Fradkin, and Brynjolfsson's working paper, "Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing," was released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
I don't see how it could be any clearer.
If they trusted the system to provide quality, then they would care about whether the person they hire is licensed - but they don't. From the article:
I don't see how it could be any clearer.
And I have yet to see where that happens except in the taxi industry. Ridesharing overcame that.I somewhat agree, but that depends on how reasonable the requirements (availability and costs) to obtain a ‘professional’ license are. If a license is granted based only on passing some relevant test (open to all and at a modest fee) then fine, but if the licenses are used (primarily) to limit the number of ‘professionals’ in a given field (e.g. only X number of active licenses are to be issued) then that is objectionable.
I can't tell you how many relatives and friends and friends of friends got screwed over by shoddy drive by contractors after Katrina hit Louisiana and after we had flooding in 2016.The point is that it should be my choice, not yours.
And I have yet to see where that happens except in the taxi industry. Ridesharing overcame that.
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