Yup and sometimes you need barriers to entry to weed out people who would be a danger to themselves and others.
I have just started up in the mobile catering business here in the UK. Need a license that is dependant on yearly gas safety inspections, environmental health inspections, and food safety compliance. Also have to have £5 million public liability insurance. Exactly the same as years ago when I owned a pub. This time I also need various street trading licenses if I am trading in public areas, but those are just stealth taxes as they are only for areas were you will get huge footfall.
Would you want to get food from someone who didn't have to comply with all the above? Would you want them operating LPG appliances outside on your street? I wouldn't.
These barriers are easy to overcome for the serious minded, but make it harder for absolute cowboys who serve shit food in filthy conditions and make people sick, as well as the clueless idiots who are likely to cause a massive LPG explosion.
Colleges emerged from the concept of guilds, centuries ago.
Notice the difference between a profession like a lawyer and a journalist. Today, anyone can be a journalist and journalism is basically going extinct. They make nothing for money. Lawyers have the bar exam which essentially enforces a guild. Their rates don't face the race to the bottom that other professions suffer.
It's definitely an interesting topic to have barriers to entry for new entrants to established professions. I don't know exactly where I stand but i think it's worth considering how much business competition hinges on marketing vector vs quality of work, and in areas where end customers can be scammed, sickened, hurt, or killed, the stakes are pretty high.
Although I am a 'small govt.' guy like most on here I am happy it is harder to start up certain businesses, as long as the hardness or barrier is sensible i.e gas safety certification, food hygiene etc for relevant businesses and is not just local government being a needless pain in the ass to everyone.
I believe many businesses should just be left alone by govt. and have absolutely no need to be regulated, but the consequences would be dire if certain ones were not somewhat regulated.
I mean, you wouldn't want someone driving a 10 ton truck without a license or any training. Same goes for certain other professions that have the potential to cause harm to others through negligence.
Yup and sometimes you need barriers to entry to weed out people who would be a danger to themselves and others.
I have just started up in the mobile catering business here in the UK. Need a license that is dependant on yearly gas safety inspections, environmental health inspections, and food safety compliance. Also have to have £5 million public liability insurance. Exactly the same as years ago when I owned a pub. This time I also need various street trading licenses if I am trading in public areas, but those are just stealth taxes as they are only for areas were you will get huge footfall.
Would you want to get food from someone who didn't have to comply with all the above? Would you want them operating LPG appliances outside on your street? I wouldn't.
These barriers are easy to overcome for the serious minded, but make it harder for absolute cowboys who serve shit food in filthy conditions and make people sick, as well as the clueless idiots who are likely to cause a massive LPG explosion.
Colleges emerged from the concept of guilds, centuries ago.
Notice the difference between a profession like a lawyer and a journalist. Today, anyone can be a journalist and journalism is basically going extinct. They make nothing for money. Lawyers have the bar exam which essentially enforces a guild. Their rates don't face the race to the bottom that other professions suffer.
It's definitely an interesting topic to have barriers to entry for new entrants to established professions. I don't know exactly where I stand but i think it's worth considering how much business competition hinges on marketing vector vs quality of work, and in areas where end customers can be scammed, sickened, hurt, or killed, the stakes are pretty high.
Although I am a 'small govt.' guy like most on here I am happy it is harder to start up certain businesses, as long as the hardness or barrier is sensible i.e gas safety certification, food hygiene etc for relevant businesses and is not just local government being a needless pain in the ass to everyone.
I believe many businesses should just be left alone by govt. and have absolutely no need to be regulated, but the consequences would be dire if certain ones were not somewhat regulated.
I mean, you wouldn't want someone driving a 10 ton truck without a license or any training. Same goes for certain other professions that have the potential to cause harm to others through negligence.