Depends. If she were starting her career today, it's quite possible that she'd be just as well known.
Back when physical media was the only way for fans to get your content, the labels were necessary to have your music widely disseminated. Now they aren't necessary.
As an analogy: Just because supplies for the first automobile factories were shipped in by horses doesn't imply that horses continue to be necessary after the automobile was available to everyone, you know?
So let's say I want to tell people that whole grains are evil and that they shouldn't eat them (they are, and you shouldn't, by the way).
First, I apparently would need to be licensed by the state. But how do I get that license? By taking a test, where they judge me on my agreement with mainstream nutritional thought that whole grains are good? By getting a degree from an accredited institution that only gets accredited by teaching that whole grains are good? (Thanks, corn lobby!)
Without standards for issuance, a license is just a bribe to the state for the privilege to join the cartel, but with the standards, it's merely a method for bureaucrats and their lobbyists to suppress any speech that goes against mainstream opinion or their agenda.
Either way you look at it, the license is garbage.
And if the government-approved cartel of practitioners is wrong (or corrupt), you're essentially making it illegal to give advice that's correct.
No thanks, I'll support free speech over statist fucktards and their drive to crush opinions that aren't sanctioned by bureaucrats and the lobbyists that got them elected.
You don't need regulation and licensing to prevent fraud, you just need laws against fraud.
If he says "I have license ABC!" and he doesn't, that's fraud.
If he says "I have degree XYZ!" and he doesn't, that's fraud.
If he says "Hey, this worked for me and you could try it too by doing these steps . . ." who is he defrauding, and how? Can you even articulate where the fraud is?
The test should be simple: if he is making money on the web site through ads or any other mechanism, then he is a practitioner and needs to pay his bribe to the state so as to be be let into the government-created cartel.
To them there should be no regulation of ambulances at all.
There doesn't need to be. I can sign a contract with a local ambulance company on my own and tell them where my preferred healthcare destination is without government "help".
if you could get through because the government shouldn't be regulate anything, including radio frequencies
Radio frequencies, being a scarce resource, should be privately owned. You don't need any more "regulation" of radio frequencies than your average, everyday property right. We don't need a giant, centralized, bloated, federal commission to draft rules about who can and can't trample my flower bed, after all.
there is only one hospital, because there are no anti-monopoly laws
Monopolies are created by government interference. Fact. Your solution to stopping monopoly creation is to make the entity that creates them in the first place even bigger. This is especially funny because we see today the very result of the enormous amount of regulations that ignorant people like you lobby for: healthcare monopolies and high prices.
But hey, at least you can tell all those people without health insurance that you had their best interests at heart when you went to bat for Big Pharma and the health insurance companies against the "evil" libertarians.
While this is mostly true, you can't forget that it works the same way in reverse too. When Obama adopted all of Bush's terrible policies, both the Republicans and the Democrats just flipped their opinions overnight. The Democrats are suddenly all for military intervention overseas and the Republicans are suddenly worried about the massive increase in presidential power.
It's all just a game. People cheer for their political party like they cheer for football teams. Consistency and rationality need not apply.
Hell the two parties are so "different" these days, the Republicans are about to nominate Obama-lite as their candidate. Talk about a choice.
This in interesting stuff, and I'll be thrilled to see how it turns out, but I can't help but remember that increasing democracy is not the same thing as increasing freedom.
People confuse the two entirely too readily these days.
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Back when physical media was the only way for fans to get your content, the labels were necessary to have your music widely disseminated. Now they aren't necessary.
As an analogy: Just because supplies for the first automobile factories were shipped in by horses doesn't imply that horses continue to be necessary after the automobile was available to everyone, you know?
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First, I apparently would need to be licensed by the state. But how do I get that license? By taking a test, where they judge me on my agreement with mainstream nutritional thought that whole grains are good? By getting a degree from an accredited institution that only gets accredited by teaching that whole grains are good? (Thanks, corn lobby!)
Without standards for issuance, a license is just a bribe to the state for the privilege to join the cartel, but with the standards, it's merely a method for bureaucrats and their lobbyists to suppress any speech that goes against mainstream opinion or their agenda.
Either way you look at it, the license is garbage.
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No thanks, I'll support free speech over statist fucktards and their drive to crush opinions that aren't sanctioned by bureaucrats and the lobbyists that got them elected.
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If he says "I have license ABC!" and he doesn't, that's fraud.
If he says "I have degree XYZ!" and he doesn't, that's fraud.
If he says "Hey, this worked for me and you could try it too by doing these steps . . ." who is he defrauding, and how? Can you even articulate where the fraud is?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: He was caught **consulting**
But hey, at least you can tell all those people without health insurance that you had their best interests at heart when you went to bat for Big Pharma and the health insurance companies against the "evil" libertarians.
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He did allow some friendly computers on the internet to come in and arrange the bits on his hard drive in a particular fashion, though.
I can see how you might get the two confused, being of small mind and all.
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The "entitlement" mentality is coming from the pro-copyright side.
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Therefore, even if he could have paid, but didn't, he could still go to sleep with a clear conscience.
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It's all just a game. People cheer for their political party like they cheer for football teams. Consistency and rationality need not apply.
Hell the two parties are so "different" these days, the Republicans are about to nominate Obama-lite as their candidate. Talk about a choice.
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The Trade-Off
People confuse the two entirely too readily these days.
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