But what it usually requires is an eight hour course in which you're told repeatedly that you need to sterilize combs in a solution that kills lice so you don't spread lice.
Let's not pretend that licencing requirements are always some sinister cartel action to limit the number of nail-painters in a given municipality. Usually they're just a response to some obviously avoidable consequence of a large number of unlicenced practitioners paying little attention to minimal standards.
Have you done a survey of different state laws to determine what is usual or did you just give the state apparatus the benefit of the doubt and assume it was sane?
I give you TN
>But after doing that for a few months, Tammy heard from officials at the state Cosmetology Board, informing her that she could not continue washing hair because she lacks a governmental license to do so. Under Board of Cosmetology regulations, an individual “must complete not less than 300 hours of instruction on the theory and practice of shampooing” at an approved school.
Here in Washington state hair design requires 1,400 hours plus 1750 hours apprenticeship. This is the equivalent of working full time for a year and a half.
Note that cosmetology isn't just hair-washing: it covers a wide range of applying a variety of substances to people's hair and skin, often near orifices that more easily absorb toxic subatances like eyes or mouths.
Note that the person who wrote the first article you linked to lists his occupation as "I write on the damage big government does, especially to education."
Note that you elide simple hair washing with 'hair design' and its much more onerous requirement of cosmetology school or apprencticeship (not both).
Did you just assume that all regulation is bullshit and let a quick google search provide your argument?
>Did you just assume that all regulation is bullshit and let a quick google search provide your argument?
It's not that unsafe a bet when its virtually impossible in most of the nation to do ANY work on people's hair without thousands of dollars and 1k+ to burn becoming certified to do so.
I assure you having taken a 8hr class has approximately no impact on whether one sanitizes combs and the desire of management to provide the resources necessary to sanitize combs is the determining factor.
This generalizes to basically every industry unless the labor pool is so small that the bad places to work can't find new employees faster than they wash out.
In point of fact, barbers and hair dressers are virtually always independent contractors sharing a shop space. It's basically never the case in North America that they're employees; this saves the shop owner all sorts of hassle, but puts the onus on the barber/hair dresser as the responsible business owner and thus the one required to be licenced. They provide their own clippers and barbasol. The hair dresser themself is the management that needs to provide necessary resources.
Compare with the comment above about "should we licence dish washers too?" No, because dish washers are employees of a restaurant that deals with licencing and compliance with food safety laws.
Let's not pretend that licencing requirements are always some sinister cartel action to limit the number of nail-painters in a given municipality. Usually they're just a response to some obviously avoidable consequence of a large number of unlicenced practitioners paying little attention to minimal standards.