>>280570351
Occupational licensing is definitely an (evil) thing in the real world, but it never looks like a competitive examination where people compete with each other for the license, because why the fuck would it?

Real world occupational licensing looks like paying hundreds of dollars to sit your ass for a week or three in a classroom while some bored asshole lectures you about the most braindead possible failure modes of your job so as to avoid lawsuits, followed by a extremely easy pen and paper exam, sometimes followed by a practical exam. It's a racket for rent seekers to extract value and limit competition.