It makes me so dang sad everytime I see an elder working at walmart.

Ya, most of those licenses are just a bureaucratic money grab disguised as the state looking out for public interest.

We don't have them at every corner, but every major trainstation, most shopping Centers and many touristy areas have one, if i want one it takes me like 15min walking/with public transport to get one in most areas im regularly at.

here in Tokyo at least there are like 10 different Starbucks-like local chains and they are all roughly the same price (i.e. expensive) so I think the point still applies, even if the stores aren't literally Starbucks branded. ordering coffee at a cafe here is fairly expensive.

Nah theyre paradox mons

A billion in admins sounds like it's one of these things.

And a billion in commercial and admin sounds like "we kinda pay for the CEOs meal and housing out of company's pockets"

Since we’re in February 2023 now, I’m confused if the green “winter ‘22” means that the green in January is actually January ‘23? If that’s true, it seems like it would make more sense to start June at the left. If the green data is “2022,” then it would make more sense to label it “2022” not “winter 2022” and just have it go all year.

That shit whiter than the holy light

Hard disagree. Barbers/hair dressers and nail techs need to learn about and be able to demonstrate sanitation between customers. Also you can hurt people if you don't know how use clippers or a straight razer correctly. You could hurt customers if you don't know how to properly mix or use hair dyes and bleaches. You can hurt customers if the nail tech doesn't know how to properly apply nails.

In addition regulations on business buildings for salons is necessary as they usually have equipment that have high voltage needs/water needs. If you don't have the proper outlets and water hookups you could hurt customers by short circuits and/or cause fires.

Don't worry. No one's heading to Mississippi. It's on all of the "bottom 5" lists for the US...

If you live off of the 4% rule you are living off of like 30k a year. This doesn't work.

The data from Turkey seems to be old, grande latte is 45 liras which is around 2,5 USD nowadays. Tall latte is 2 USD.

Depends on where you live and what kind of lifestyle you want to have. These are averages. Bakersfield isn't the same cost as LA.

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TL;DR: Get out of Cali/NY and go to Florida/Texas

In Europe that's not a very accurate description of the 'locals', are you referring to subsaharan Africa?

"In Cambodia and India, it would take more than 70% of the median daily wage to buy a Starbucks coffee."

Yet, every Starbucks in India is almost always full (and usually noisy unlike most countries). It's commonly filled with people trying to showoff their status symbol instead of having a coffee or getting their work done in peace.

It would be interesting to look at a metric for beta/volatility. The mean may be largely unchanged vs historical norms, but it feels like the swings are significantly more dynamic than when I was a kid.

And factory fishing boats!

Ah. Difficult to draw concrete conclusions about "licensing unfairly harms poor people" if e.g. Texas requires barbers simply notify them that they're barbering and California requires that they take a 4-year college program prior to barbering, but it's still useful as an approximation I'm sure.

Interesting how Louisiana (and a lot of other southern states) rank so highly, as I don't really imagine them as being big on government regulation. I wonder if maybe that is a result of old regulations that were once used to keep out specific groups of people.

I guess that means they can spend more than 5 million for their assisination projects.

In some cases license is just paying a small fee to get added to your local government's registry.

In others it's a more extensive training/certification process (truck drivers, for example, have to pass a specialized driving test).

Varies pretty widely. I doubt the one state that licenses florists is putting them through any course and/or test.

May be a bit misleading, thinking "all ok we're within normal range". Would be interesting to see if the max values tend to be more recent than the min values.

It’d be even more telling to see the daily avg & median plotted against the current year’s data, or last few years avg & median