mdshunk said:
Electrician licensing does not exist in a few states yet, and anarchy in those trades does not exist. People pull a permit, do the work, and have the job inspected; pass or fail.
If there is a Government employed inspector checking the work, and even provision for pulling a permit, then no that isn't anarchy.
Also, you guys keep tossing
Anarchy around like it's a bad word or something.
The fact is we spend most of our day operating in a Anarchist society, we are, for the most part, unregulated in our day to day activity. There's not even a full time police officer where I live, and we aren't all killing each other in the streets.
In a perfect world, there is no need for Government. The Government can't do anything that the (truly) free market can't do better, and it is not the function of Government to regulate most of the things we've allowed it to become involved in.
I think Ayn Rand said it best - "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
In life, there only needs to be one rule (or law if you prefer). If you do not intentially harm another person in any way, and you make restitution to those you have harmed unintentionally, then the need for Government disappears for the most part.
Courts would be relegated to moderating breach of contract disputes, and it might be nice to have a Navy for national defense, but everything else would go away.
BUT, we don't live in a perfect world do we?
For some people even that one rule is too many, so we end up with what we've got.
Strange topic for an electrical forum, but it does play into the work we all do, and I'm glad to see it being discussed so civilly here.