Dave Close wrote: > Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > >> You are right, licensing does not eliminate all the bad apples, but I for >> one, believe it reduces their numbers. If you go to a doctor, a lawyer, >> etc... and believe they do something wrong, there is a procedure to complain >> to their professional body, and if needed prevent them from being a >> professional. The alternative is to tell everybody you know that you think >> they are not good... >> > > _Capitalism and Freedom_ by Milton Friedman, published in the early > 1960s, demolished once and for all any reasonable case for licensing of > anybody. Licensing is nothing more than legalized restraint of trade. >
umm, you're suggesting that anyone who wants should be able to open an office and practice as a medical doctor? I don't think so. I think the current meltdown of the U.S. and world economies, and the underlying causes, has demolished once and for all the idea that deregulation is inherently a good thing and that all will be right because the market will self correct. Even Alan Greenspan admitted to Congress in October that he was in a "state of shocked disbelief" and that there were apparently some errors in his ideas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan]. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
