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There's a great Milton Friedman test: if license requirements benefit consumers you would expect to see consumers at the statehouse demanding legislation. But t
by R0b0t1 5y ago
There's a great Milton Friedman test: if license requirements benefit consumers you would expect to see consumers at the statehouse demanding legislation. But this is not what you see in the modern day. It's true very instrumental organizations like the FDA were funded based on public outcry, but now most lobbying done to or affecting those organizations is done by people already in the market.
You must not have never interacted with something like, say, AC install. It's regulated and you're not supposed to buy the parts yourself. You can, but some stores shut you out, they won't take your refrigerant back that legally needs to be disposed of, and so on. Recently I fixed some AC units that just needed a soldering touch up where "real repair companies" wanted to do a full new $10k install.
Similar stuff for locksmithing.
- chaostheory 5y ago> if license requirements benefit consumers you would expect to see consumers at the statehouse demanding legislation They are. You're just living in a bubble were regulations have already been set. https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/the-bigger-problem-behind-cambodias-building-collapses/ https://thediplomat.com/2020/01/the-bigger-problem-behind-ca... https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/geip/WCMS_614394/lang--en/index.htm https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/geip/WCMS_614394/lang--en/... > Similar stuff for locksmithing. https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/22797-bbb-scam-alert-locked-out-dont-fall-for-a-locksmith-cons https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/22797-bbb-scam-ale... https://www.gvlock.com/blog/how-to-spot-avoid-a-locksmith-scam-2/ https://www.gvlock.com/blog/how-to-spot-avoid-a-locksmith-sc... I agree that over regulation is not a good thing, but I strongly feel that there's a need for basic licensing
- R0b0t1 5y agoHow are those links at all relevant? With experience in two licensed things -- HVAC and locksmithing -- I say the current red tape is red tape.
- chaostheory 5y agoIn the first set of examples, you have unlicensed work by unlicensed contractors killing people. Survivors are then angry enough at politicians to demand either more strict regulations or better enforcement. It’s a response to your freidman quote The 2nd example highlights what happens when you have a bunch of unlicensed individuals posing as locksmiths ripping people off because they don’t know how to properly deal with locks. Instead of picking them, they use a drill to destroy the lock and overcharge their victims with new locks. It’s a big problem. Ie Some regulations are useful.
- bluGill 5y agoThe drill to destroy locks is proper security theater. If people knew how easy it was to pick a lock they wouldn't trust security. Drilling takes time and makes the lock look better than it is.
- R0b0t1 5y agoI've seen unlicensed and licensed work by licensed contractors kill people. Contractors aren't structural engineers and all of them will try to cheat you. Locksmiths in my area have a proclivity to drill locks because it's cheaper than picking, save very cheap locks. Some locks can't reasonably be picked even by most locksmiths -- they have other things to do than teach themselves how to pick 1 specific type of lock. You don't really understand the markets for these things and think you can regulate them.
- chaostheory 5y agoRegardless it passes the Freidman test. Also not enough people have the time or inclination to pick locks or learn enough about a trade to discern good vs bad contractors. My points still stand. I feel that you need to live outside of the bubble of a developed country to get a better perspective of things.