I don't have a problem with that. Anything with healthcare or safety (electricians, plumbers, gas installers, builders, car mechanics) must be regulated in order to protect the public.
90% of the skill required in many jobs can be learned in a week or a month. It's the 10% you only learn over the course of education that are safety critical, though. Not to mention practicing in a safe environment instead on your customers or their homes.
Let's take your barber as an example, and only the stuff that comes to my non-professional mind:
- highly aggressive chemicals that will ruin your health if you're not taking proper safety precautions
- the fact that you're meddling with a deadly sharp knife at the necks of your customers
- health hazards for the customers: lice, other transmittable diseases, improperly disinfected equipment
- health hazards for yourself that can be carried by your customers and you can pick them up (e.g. you cut the customer by accident, he's HIV+ and you have an open wound on one of your fingers while not wearing gloves - something I rarely see barbers do)
The fact that the IT industry largely consists of self-educated people might be pretty cool but on the other side, how many security incidents could have been avoided by proper education? Even for BASIC security like not doing echo $_GET["name"]? Take a look at https://blog.setec.io/articles/2016/01/07/software-kill.html or literally hundreds of similar articles.
90% of the skill required in many jobs can be learned in a week or a month. It's the 10% you only learn over the course of education that are safety critical, though. Not to mention practicing in a safe environment instead on your customers or their homes.
Let's take your barber as an example, and only the stuff that comes to my non-professional mind:
- highly aggressive chemicals that will ruin your health if you're not taking proper safety precautions
- the fact that you're meddling with a deadly sharp knife at the necks of your customers
- health hazards for the customers: lice, other transmittable diseases, improperly disinfected equipment
- health hazards for yourself that can be carried by your customers and you can pick them up (e.g. you cut the customer by accident, he's HIV+ and you have an open wound on one of your fingers while not wearing gloves - something I rarely see barbers do)
The fact that the IT industry largely consists of self-educated people might be pretty cool but on the other side, how many security incidents could have been avoided by proper education? Even for BASIC security like not doing echo $_GET["name"]? Take a look at https://blog.setec.io/articles/2016/01/07/software-kill.html or literally hundreds of similar articles.