Offensive

[olegvolk]

Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.

Of all offensive legal and political concepts, permit to work has to be among the worst. It’s absence gives people the choice between begging and perishing. Hopefully, with the increased amount of work done on-line and across borders, the state’s ability to enforce this travesty

Comments

[seadevil001]

Well if someone in Malaysia start make living by taking pictures of firearms you may change your position... And, in most cases permit to work also signify that person has valid credentials in person field of work.

[maineshark]

"And, in most cases permit to work also signify that person has valid credentials in person field of work."

No, it signifies that someone is good at jumping through governmental hoops.

I wouldn't hire a photographer without seeing his photographs. I wouldn't hire a carpenter without seeing houses she built. I wouldn't hire a barber without a recommendation from his existing clients.

Any or none of those professions may be subject to licensure, depending upon where one lives. In no case would the presence of absence of a license indicate anything about the actual skill of the licenseholder.

[seadevil001]

Well, if someone cannot fill simple paperwork, I do not think that person can be truly competent on anything. Barbers should get an exception, though.
What about MDs? How you can access size of particular MD personal cemetery?

[maineshark]

"Well, if someone cannot fill simple paperwork, I do not think that person can be truly competent on anything."

That's rather discriminatory. I know several skilled tradespersons who are functionally illiterate due to learning disabilities.

"What about MDs?"

What about them? We hired the same individual to deliver our first two children. She was quite skilled, and was costing the local hospital millions of dollars in lost birth fees because so many folks were choosing to use her birth center, instead. The local hospital hired folks to search her paperwork and identified a handful of paperwork errors (out of hundreds of births), resulting in her losing her license. Did she suddenly lose all of her professional skill at that point? Did she magically become incapable of delivering babies, because she didn't have a particular piece of paper in her possession, any more?

The only thing that changed was that, if we had hired her to deliver our third child, armed thugs would have violently attacked her for doing so.

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