Are not permits and licenses a violation of freedom?
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Do we intend to fix all of this after everything is done and over, or are we going to pretend to be free like we did before? just asking for a fren
Right?!!
You need to spend $100 on an electrician just for a permit, because they have to pay the city $50 and fill out paperwork
Imagine how much money would be saved, in the entire economy without these things.
Let a man be responsible for his actions, and let him be free of your opinion and your safety restriction.
I have zero issue with groups that want to certify various trades. Doing your research you can easily determine if you trust said groups & their standards.
Government demanding someone pay a fee to even do the work in the first place is evil & theft.
I'm with you there. Some things just make sense. Other things are a clear money grab.
We need to figure out ways around this to be helpful but to still be safe.
An electrician can save your house from burning down, but shouldn’t be able to capitalize on him standing in the way of you connecting to the grid.
It gets murky when you get to this place because you start sticking your toes into socialism and communism where things should be free.
Now we're back to fear porn and "safety". I'm not big on the "safety" angle at all. If I hire a guy to do electrical work and my house burns down, I am going to sue him, so it behooves him to do a good job. These days, with the internet, it would be easy to keep track of the phonies who don't know what they are doing: Bad reviews!!
Well... I fully UNDERSTAND where you’re coming from. But safety can be the difference in life and death. It does infringe on Liberty though. Maybe we have “no safety zones” where people who truly want to be free can all do their own things.
I’m a multi craft engineering tech. I work on everything from mechanics, hydraulics, electric, steam, gravity systems etc..
If you’re grounded out in your house build, then when you connect to the grid, you’re putting a ground on the entire hot circuit, meaning 100s maybe 1000s of other homes around you.
I’ve totally connected a piece of grounded hardware into a live circuit before.. and spent tons of time replacing relays and fuses to everything in that circuit, it takes a millisecond of “oops” to really mess a lot of stuff up.
Liberty has no bounds though. So that’s a tough one lol
People have ways of finding out about those who do work for them: Referrals, written reviews, etc. It's not about the license, it's about their training and experience. That's all I'm saying. I know some very crappy people in my profession who have licenses and it doesn't help them be better at what they do.
Amen