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Unless they are in kindergarten, it takes about 5 minutes to teach someone not to cut skin with scissors. It's easy to imagine that my kid wants to be a barber

Unless they are in kindergarten, it takes about 5 minutes to teach someone not to cut skin with scissors. It's easy to imagine that my kid wants to be a barber and so I could front the money for him to do whatever licensure requirements there are. But it's really hard for some poor person to hop through those same hoops, when all they are trying to do is earn an honest living by offering services for which people will give them money. A lot of "well what's the harm in requiring hairdressers to take 100 hours of classes" are things which strictly benefit the middle- and upper-class (they aren't really going to notice paying 50 cents more for a haircut), but could really put the screws to the lower-class.

askldfhjkasfhd 10y ago
I see your point, but I'm not sure beautician licensure requirements are a good place to point out how difficult it is for poorer people to get into. In my experience, it's a very lower-middle or lower socioeconomic status profession. The licensure requirements certainly haven't meant (in my experience) that we're limiting the field to wealthy people. It probably could be better/easier, but again, given all the chemicals that get combined, the pace at which they work, and the sharp instruments, I don't think 2.5 weeks of fulltime training is unreasonable.