• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    That’s one of the reasons to license trades. If you need a Master Electrician for your business’s electrical contractor’s license, it’s a lot harder to spin up fake companies with random, because becoming a Master Electrician takes years of work.

    Electricians aren’t magicians, and anybody can learn to do what they do fairly quickly. But making the process require rlyears of work means they’re less-likely to cut corners or participate in shady deals. They don’t want to risk their license.

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      4 days ago

      You don’t need to be a master electrician to “own” a licensed company, you just to have one your staff to operate under their license

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        Yeah, but there aren’t an unlimited number of MEs. And MEs have a bunch of power over an EC, since the company can’t operate if they walk.