Occupational Licensing is not universally bad.<p>Licensed hairdresser? Fuckoff. Licensed doctor? Sounds reasonable. Lawyer? yeah. Engineer? Probably. etc...<p>Insurance salesperson? maybe.<p>Really depends on what the license is intended to protect. if it&#x27;s just a silly barrier to entry that&#x27;s one thing. If it is to ensure that a person has a minimal level of competence so as to prevent real harm to their customers that&#x27;s a different thing. A lot will claim to meet the latter standard, I&#x27;m skeptical how many do. Insurance sales licensing I would guess to be mostly the former.<p>That being said, you spend 2 weeks getting licenses sorted out when someone starts and you avoid this whole mess.