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In article <Jul.22.21.22.27.1991.11611@yoko.rutgers.edu> back@yoko.rutgers.edu (Steven Back) writes:
>But now, thinking from a purely detached self interest point of view...
>
>If licensing would limit the number new people entering the field, then
>MY salary will go up. It's simple self interest and I don't mind a
>little of that. If licensing programmers will raise the average salary
>over a lifetime carrear by %25, I'll go for it. 

From a purely detached self interest point of view, you can probably
get a lot of money by robbing banks. You into doing that?

Just because the government thinks that programmer licenses are
"lawful" doesn't make lobbying for them to raise your salary morally
superior, in any way, to bank robbery. In the one case, you intend to
rob a bank with a gun. In the other, you intend to use the guns of the
state to force people to employ you rather than other equally
qualified individuals who you have managed to legally outflank.

Its about as disgusting as you get.

Perry Metzger

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