Permission To Shampoo
You might have thought that the simple act of shampooing someone's hair might be too benign to warrant any intervention from the state, but unfortunately you'd be wrong.
It's estimated that licensing laws are keeping millions of jobs out of the market place and who knows how much better or cheaper a great deal of services might be, if these regulations weren't working so hard to keep so many people out.
If you're someone living in a place like California, then you'll need to make sure you've completed quite a few steps that will satisfy the authorities, before you can just go shampooing anyone who might be willing.
And those steps include paying fees and spending over 1,000 hours doing training; much of which has been deemed irrelevant, critics admit, to the everyday occupation. But that training could easily cost thousands of dollars, just to do someone's hair.
Would you believe it that if you're caught shampooing someone's hair for a charge without the proper state permission that it could mean time behind bars?
Clearly, this regulatory web prevents many people from trying to better their lives and attempt to make a living by serving people in his or her community.
It's also excluding competitors from entering into the market, which doesn't help to bring the best prices or products and services for consumers.
Safety or control?...
If someone shampoos or styles someone's hair and they don't do a good job of it, it's easy for the market to respond.
That client is unlikely to go back and support that business and also likely to tell many others about their negative experience, which likely prompt them to go looking elsewhere as well for service. It's very easy to share negative or positive reviews online today, to warn other potential customers that they might not get the hair-care service that they're looking for.
And the best thing about having a bad experience at the barber or salon? The hair can always grow back. It's absurd to think that someone might need to spend even one second of their life being harassed or locked in a cage because they voluntarily agreed with someone to shampoo their hair for them, in exchange for monetary compensation.
Pics:
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Sources:
http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/burdensome-licensing-law-turns-shampooers-into-criminals/
https://steemit.com/politics/@doitvoluntarily/occupational-licensing-keeps-millions-of-jobs-out-of-the-market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2016/05/05/shampooing-hair-without-a-license-could-mean-jail-time-in-tennessee/#61397dbf6668
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/need-a-license-to-shampoo-hair-for-pay-michigan-says-yes
http://iwf.org/blog/2805754/Blow-Drying-without-a-License-Can-Carry-Jail-Time-in-Arizona
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We have this law for hair grooming in Ontario I believe it is about 4 to 5 years now.
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Sounds absurd. We are putting so much emphasis on certifications that people who just learn and take the exam are valued more than those who have done the work with years of experience.
Hello doitvoluntarily,
Another interesting article for me to read and ponder. When are these authorities leave the citizens alone and let the free market govern it self?
I feel stifled every direction I turn in this country, supposedly the Land of the Free even after living here for 43 years.
Let me seek the real Freedom!
Today I have read several articles in California law that are really curious, that lead me to think about the absolute control of the government over the working class or maybe a way to manage the migratory force that enters the United States after the American dream....
I am from Venezuela and the economic situation of my country has forced many professionals to enter other countries doing anything to survive, maybe these laws are a funnel for all those who enter that nation will make it difficult for them to access decent work and end up being the main objective of these laws.
This happens in much of the world, my daughter Brenda is studying the career of a stilist, a career that takes more than a year to learn and get her diploma and authorization to work on it, she paid $ 1000 dollars of registration and 12 payments of US $ 30 monthly.
Thank you very much dear friend @doitvoluntarily for sharing this information
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Wow nice post, thanks for sharing
Thanks for good post.
Wow, that is so ridiculous! The regulations are becoming so extreme that eventually they will make it so hard for the average person to do anything.
So you need 1000 hours of training to shampoo - maybe that's why my son doesn't quite get it?!!
Really, it's beyond absurd to come up with so many regulations to prevent someone to get a decent job.