Yes and no.
Some of our rules on ‘only those licensed may do’ for often quite mundane things has always caused me to believe many related laws are nothing but vestiges of union demarcation issues and work (not worker) protection.
My ‘bad attitude’ started when I discovered a certain ‘home owner’ license to do fairly mundane and straight forward work in one’s own house required exams and cost as much as getting a trade certification, and then expired after a year.
