Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America

In my state school bus drivers need to have a CDL and a state certification for school buses. That same CDL allows you to drive food trucks, garbage trucks, and long-haul cargo. The major difference between those jobs and bus driving is working with kids. That doesn't seem redundant to me.

Whether that should be done via a state cert or in job training is another question, though.

The subtitle is "Why should anyone need a license to braid hair?", and the lead in example is talking about New Hampshire's push to wholly remove licensure. Sure, maybe that kind of tack is needed to open up minds to the idea that it's possible to have consentual private interactions without the mediation of government.

But it's not particularly nuanced to brush aside why some of that standardization may have been useful to begin with, especially when we take for granted modern conveniences like the ability to talk into any random shop labeled "hair cuts" and not walk out with bugs.

I'll admit I stopped reading the article at some point, as it was quite long and not particularly enlightening. So I said my piece regarding the philosophical basis of where reform needs to start, which is actually the same root as the issue of unaccountable police - this rotten assumption of sovereign immunity. If we correctly attribute the state's drag on individuals' lives to the state itself (rather than allowing it to be brushed aside and externalized to individuals), the proper incentives will fall out.