How could it make sense to require people to graduate high school to go to barbering school?

How could it make sense not to offer a shortcut for someone who already knows how to do the job to skip most of the schooling?

How could it be just to impose a heavy fine for barbering without a license, on the first complaint?

How could it be just for a court to issue a fine and not appoint a lawyer to represent the person that might be fined?

My friend Paul sent me this:

It might help understand this if you know that an amazingly high proportion of cosmetology school students are older black guys who have gotten out of prison. Opening a barber shop is one of their few avenues to owning a business and making a living, given that their criminal record makes it almost impossible to get a regular job. So it sounds like Tennessee is trying to put more obstacles in their path.

Coral Reefs "At Make Or Break Point",

US deportation thugs are specifically targeting unauthorized immigrants that organize for immigrants' rights, and deporting them very fast before courts have ruled on their cases.

I can't reach any conclusion about whether those specific people ought to be allowed to remain in the US, but US citizens' rights are at stake here too. When the state acts to harm a person without waiting for the court to decide about the matter, it expresses contempt for the idea of legal rights -- for anyone whatsoever.

Moving possible deportees in places far away from their homes, without demonstrating a need, is an act of gratuitous cruelty.

How privatization reduces the monetary cost of public services: reducing the number of workers by 1/3, and paying each of them 1/3 less.

The workers do not magically become more efficient by being paid less. When their numbers are insufficient, they fall behind on the work. The outsourced work is "more efficient" only in the sense that it costs less per worker, and that's due to the reduced pay.

I didn't know, before reading this article, about how outsourcing part of the work in an organization can cause discoordination and rigidity.

To kill dooH niboR, we should restore the workers' old salaries and the rich people's old tax rates.

Human Rights Watch report accuses western politicians of driving global misrule by feeding off public fear and discontent.

Some details need correcting. For instance, I don't think Putin or Xi play any role in continuing the bombardment and blockade of Yemen; that's down to the US and Salafi Arabia.