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Cashier, laborer, receptionist, assembly worker, fast food worker, call center agent, farmhand, warehouse worker w/o forklift.

You can't take a person off the street and have a fully functional barber in a day. The professions above, you can.



Every single one of those trades has a component of skill, and while a reasonably intelligent and cooperative person can be made barely competent at most of those things within a day (and I doubt that's true for some, like call center agent), an experienced and learned worker in those fields will demonstrate superiority in most cases. However, that doesn't mean we need licensing.




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