[HN Gopher] Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America
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Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America
Author : mhb
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-02-25 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.theatlantic.com)
| mindslight wrote:
| Whenever I hear this argument, especially with its prominent
| example of hair cutting, I can't help but think Chesterton's
| fence. Isn't one of the main problems that hair salons are
| avoiding is the spreading of lice and other bugs (that we now
| take the non-existence of for granted)?
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| That doesn't excuse the high fees, red tape, zoning restrictions,
| etc. But we should seek to reform those dynamics and make them
| less onerous, rather than assuming that the lack of problems we
| currently enjoy is reflective of the natural condition.
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| Personally I think that all costs for state licensing programs
| should come out of the state's general budget rather than being
| foisted onto those being required to get licenses. And passing a
| straightforward test should suffice, rather than needing to
| complete any particular education program.
| puffoflogic wrote:
| I've read several articles from the Atlantic in the past few days
| which suggest it is a right-wing publication. (E.g., this one is
| about reducing government size and citing the far-right IJ
| organization.) This is odd because I hadn't really identified it
| that way before. Anyone have info on why this sudden change?
| ryukafalz wrote:
| The Atlantic certainly doesn't read as right-wing to me. It
| does seem however that there's been some more awareness on the
| left lately of cases where too much red tape can hurt
| progressive causes. This recent episode of The Ezra Klein Show
| had a good perspective, I think:
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| https://nytimes.com/2023/02/07/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ni...
| trynewideas wrote:
| Probably not related, but I didn't realize until a Wikipedia
| glance[1] that Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs's widow, owns
| _The Atlantic_. And that she was also an investor /board member
| of Ozy and co-founder of a previous venture (College Track)
| with its CEO, Carlos Watson, both of which have, uh, been in
| the news lately.[2][3]
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| 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurene_Powell_Jobs
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| 2: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3873431-ozy-media-head-
| ca...
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| 3: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/carlos-watson-
| oz...
| peyton wrote:
| I'm seeing recent featured articles titled "The GOP is just
| obnoxious," "Republicans' 2024 magical thinking," and "The
| humiliation of Kevin McCarthy."
|
| The author of this article, Jerusalem Demsas, is a black woman
| who writes about institutional failures and progressive issues
| related to housing in Democrat-leaning cities.
|
| What's your expectation?
| throwawaysleep wrote:
| > found that 88 percent of those professions were unlicensed in
| at least one state, suggesting that the system is fairly
| arbitrary.
|
| One of the occupations under that is "teacher" per the report.
| Another is "pharmacy technician." Another is "Emergency Medical
| Technician." Another is "school bus driver."
| dnissley wrote:
| "Teacher" and "school bus driver" seem pretty unreasonable to
| require licenses for because teachers also have degree
| requirements and bus drivers also have special drivers license
| requirements, making extra licenses rather redundant.
| disjunct wrote:
| 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.
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