Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture.

Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with specific privileges and responsibilities defined by law."Professional" has been devalued in recent decades by overuse, but do you really want to be treated by an unregulated doctor?

Whatever idiot drafted this guideline is clearly not a member of a regulated profession.

[8r3n7@mstdn.ca]

@cstross If you weren’t avoiding visiting the US already…

I am confused by “engineering” being listed by itself there. Engineering is not just one field. And the term “engineer” is already widely abused by unregulated workers, including faux “software engineers” (it depends where you are).

I suspect this doesn’t include all the usual specific engineers, i.e. civil, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, computer, etc. But if it does, and they simply let anyone cosplay as any kind of technical engineer, the US will disintegrate pretty rapidly, and literally.

As for education, home schooling is already ubiquitous.

Could it be that they want to leave this kind of thing to states? I mean, still a stupid idea, but perhaps this is part of a program to reduce internal migration? If your professional degree is only recognized at the state level, in one state, you can’t work anywhere else.

[hwyaden@toot.wales]

@8r3n7 @cstross engineers are state controlled, but there has been a movement by R street and some other conservative think tanks to remove engineering, such as civil and mechanical, as a profession for at least 12 years.

[8r3n7@mstdn.ca]

@hwyaden @cstross

In favour of what? Vibes? God’s blessing? They’ll be crying “Jesus” all right: when their megachurches are collapsing on their heads.

[hwyaden@toot.wales]

@8r3n7 @cstross it's supposedly libertarian, but it seems more like trying to decrease wages. The only two professions they accept are doctor (likely due to the public backlash) and lawyer because as lobbyists thats their profession.

They normally start attacking hair dressing regs and then expand it.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

ENGINEERING?!?!?

@cstross

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@blogdiva Yep. Remember this shit is trickle-down from Project 2025, whose vision of Future America is a thin scum of oligarchs/aristocrats lording it over an immiserated, de-skilled peasantry doing the stoop labour at the direction of (non-existent, but that won't stop them) AIs.