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Without the state the unions would just hire thugs to kick in your teeth.
Every group of people eventually becomes a gang.
Licensing 'unions' are to control the supply of some service or product, and so keep prices high--they are a natural response to governments importing spics and streetshitters to artificially manipulate prices lower.
They did before the government got involved. Before the government the thugs were either privately hired or they locked you out of markets by denying you acceptance to guild endorsement. People will naturally go for guild endorsed devices because it eliminates a lot of the risk that what you get is inferior.
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[–] captainstrange 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Without the state the unions would just hire thugs to kick in your teeth.
Every group of people eventually becomes a gang.
Licensing 'unions' are to control the supply of some service or product, and so keep prices high--they are a natural response to governments importing spics and streetshitters to artificially manipulate prices lower.
[–] Hand_of_Node 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It's like people have forgotten that unions beat and kill people who vote the wrong way, or threaten their power to extract money from workers.
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[–] 9-11 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
OP is talking about the licensing part, not unions.
Which one do you think an imposter should be able to impersonate?
[–] bb22 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Definitely lawyers. They used to be banned in parts of colonial America.
[–] Scald85 ago
Lawyers, for obvious and logical reasons. :)
Seriously, the professionalization of law is the actual beginning of the progressive era, well before Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson etc.
[–] Jimbonez_Jonez ago
Mortician?
[–] pcdude ago
They did before the government got involved. Before the government the thugs were either privately hired or they locked you out of markets by denying you acceptance to guild endorsement. People will naturally go for guild endorsed devices because it eliminates a lot of the risk that what you get is inferior.