Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have both written numerous articles and columns about the way lobbyists and politicians discriminate against enterpreneurs and establish artificial barriers to market entry through licensing requirements like this.
btw, is your screen name a reference to “Out of Africa” or to Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Exactly. This woman has a skill that people are willing to pay for but unfortunately for her to use that skill she must pay up first.
Seinfeld and A Cry in the Dark.
It is also the reason that the Universities are crowded, expensive and filled with lefties. They make the rules for employment, then control the “gates” of that employment. A test for competency for driving a bus, operating a train or airplane before ferrying passengers is necessary, but a University degree is not. Why then must you submit to a “degree” and licensing to cut or braid hair? To dig graves? To apply makeup to dead people in a funeral home? To teach children? Competency means everything, a degree means nothing. As a matter of fact, people can fake a degree, they cannot fake being competent, and the best judge of that is the customer.