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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by moate on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:52PM (#18684619)
The purpose of licensing here isn't to ensure quality of work (how good or bad your haircut/highlights are). It's there to make sure disease isn't transmitted, and physical harm isn't inflicted.

The hours requirement could be scaled down, and the process more streamlined certainly, but the point of going to cosmetology school isn't really to learn how to style hair, although that happens, it's to pass state boards. Then you can assistant in a salon and learn how to do something economically useful.

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Re:Study Reveals U.S. Consumers and Economy Lose Billions to... by InGodsName on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:12PM (#18684821)
Cutting hair in a way that doesn't trasmit is actually a quality of work.

So, licensing does ensures the minimum quality.

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