Does America Require Too Many Job Licenses & Credentials? Who Benefits from Professional Licenses -the worker or consumer? Should Anyone that Wants to Teach or Cut Hair Be Allowed Without A License?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "In louisiana, it takes $1,485 and roughly 2,190 days to become an interior designer. In Washington, it takes $319 and 373 days to become a cosmetologist. The District of Columbia requires $740 to become an auctioneer, and a college degree to watch children for someone else. (Having and watching your own children continues to be an unlicensed affair.) In Kansas, you have to cough up $200 to work as a funeral attendant. And Maine requires $235 and 1,095 days to become a travel guide. Want to move states? That could mean you have to relicense, as if, say, cutting hair is materially different in Massachusetts than it is in New York." This paragraph comes from The Atlantic. The article is titled: "Permission-Slip Culture Is Hurting America." The article is written by Jerusalem Demsas. You can read the full article here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/state-licensing-requirements-cosmetologists-landscape-architecture/673196/ Zac and Don discuss the role of professional licenses in our society. They reflect on their own respective licenses to teach and how they benefit from it. They also wonder if there should be many fewer licensed professions.