ArtH

This topic of tuition slavery is related to the entire concept of government licensing requirements; New York and lots of cities and states require licenses to be able to enter into any number of "professions" where there is no rationale for such a requirement in the first place. It's primarily an entry restriction put in place by those who are already in the business. This is indirect slavery given the huge number of people who might clearly have the talent and ability to perform the function of a given profession requiring a license, but the requirements of such licensing are very often educational (even Masters required) when there is absolutely no reason to exclude those with actual experience, knowledge and ability. And of course there is rarely an opportunity to take a test in order to skip the licensing/educational requirements. This is slavery by exclusion, not by lack of ability to perform the tasks, in many, many restricted vocational areas. Milton Friedman, no surprise, was very much opposed to licensing restrictions.