[icebraining]

doctors

Because the healthcare job market is such a success! Remember those accusations against tech companies for colluding to depress wages? Now imagine the same, but with State immunity!

The anti-trust class-action lawsuit Jung v. AAMC alleged collusion to prevent American trainee doctors from negotiating for better working conditions. The working conditions of medical residents often involved 80- to 100-hour workweeks. The suit had some early success, but failed when the U.S. Congress enacted a statute exempting matching programs from federal anti-trust laws.

[pizzaman09]

I never said "let's make software licensure exactly like healthcare licensure". There are parts of healthcare licensure we could also criticize, but that's not my point. If you'd like to discuss specific parts of softwares licensure, I'm more than willing, but don't engage in faulty reasoning.

[icebraining]

You don't get to decide how it'll shape up; public choice and markets don't work like that. The decision to mandate licensure unleashes forces that very often lead to the kinds of problems that I described above.

Unless you have a very good reason why it won't in this case, you're just playing with fire.