I understand licensing vehicles for roads they've built & manage, & can be persuaded re lakes & rivers. But they own and manage wildlife? And nearly all of commerce? Appraisers didn't cause the S&L crisis, and accountants didn't cause the tech bubble or Enron. We were banks & Wall St's fall guys. Doctors & dentists& cosmetologists, lawyers, etc. How many were fall guys from the free market since 1913? You need a license for virtually every business, profession & occupation now. Think about that.
@ScoWer22
It's so much worse than this that people don't even realize.
Ask anyone if you can do something and their first thougt will be: is it legal? is it allowed?
The normal thought of: "is it possible? how do i do it?" never crosses their mind. Maybe after the government gave them permission.
@perfect_brains @ScoWer22
From some great men throughout history (and my own lived experience too), paradoxically the solution is Tyranny.
Due to human nature and biology, we only value results that come from putting effort, facing hardships and overcoming those obstacles to achieve success - normally at a high cost with a stream of failures.
The only way for men to value freedom again, it is to make them FIGHT for it. It should never be given - life is suffering, as buddha said.
@Zeb @perfect_brains And yet the French Revolution and Napoleon not far down the road suggests that tyranny and war by the few...ends. Usually without too many heads in baskets until the point is made to tyrants. Or dictators rot on islands.
@Zeb I suspect that Franklin, Edison, Tesla never thought twice at the moment of inspiration. "Do i need a license for this (thing that could change everything)?" Had more important things on their mind. Sure, they all tried to turn it into $$. But they didn't have a govt and regulators in place to set upon and oppress them (if not steal it outright for their crony corporations to despoil). Libertarians hate "licenses". "Badges? Don't need no stinkin' badges."