AMA, ABA, AIA, SAE, Teaching cerrtification for public schools ......
"Professional Associations"
AKA unions.
Most of those professions were underpaid except for a few stars and self promoters.
Then they actually professionalized, and kept at it.
Apparently (according to posts) Major Resort Areas can essentially recruit instructors off the street because there is no legislation mandating credentialed standards to prevent it. Kind of like in the old days, for medical and legal help. Or how school teachers were hired before credentials.
It's like another parallel argument going on about the "ethics" of lift tickets.
Fundamentally, there are none.
It's always about advantage.
The Providing Entity/MRA attempts to stack the deck to minimize services and maximize fees, including lobbying for legislation that enhances their positions; positions the gendarmarie to prosecute their side, & promulgates PR that promotes their position as "rights". Consumers attempt to minimize costs and enhance the experience, but have little connection to improve their advantage except between the cracks. A small portion "cheat back". What is difficult these days is seeing how so many industries are optimizing short term gains in ways that will short change immediate clients, but worse, diminish prospects for long term growth for that industry.
There's a big difference between how "mom 'n pop" /aka locally owned businesses work to grow the base of customers and enhance every aspect of the experience. VS multi operation enitities that commoditize the consumer to benefit shareholders in ways that are less likely to grow the resource long term.
I'm not necessarily in favor, but with the 'net, it is difficult to understand why someone has not yet "bundled" consumers in a way that takes a lot of the power back out of a given set of providing institutions. With experience (to understand how they are used, and which areas tend to benefit most, among other metrics), the multipass systems could start to.
PS, it is a monopoly if, when you enter a system, there are no competing options for your "needs" within *reasonable* out reach. Food, Shelter, education, fuel; separate from the entertainment. US monopoly law used to understand that with many of the divisions that were once codified. Fine if you are Disneyworld. Possibly questionable if your entity is on "public" property.
smt
"Professional Associations"
AKA unions.
Most of those professions were underpaid except for a few stars and self promoters.
Then they actually professionalized, and kept at it.
Apparently (according to posts) Major Resort Areas can essentially recruit instructors off the street because there is no legislation mandating credentialed standards to prevent it. Kind of like in the old days, for medical and legal help. Or how school teachers were hired before credentials.
It's like another parallel argument going on about the "ethics" of lift tickets.
Fundamentally, there are none.
It's always about advantage.
The Providing Entity/MRA attempts to stack the deck to minimize services and maximize fees, including lobbying for legislation that enhances their positions; positions the gendarmarie to prosecute their side, & promulgates PR that promotes their position as "rights". Consumers attempt to minimize costs and enhance the experience, but have little connection to improve their advantage except between the cracks. A small portion "cheat back". What is difficult these days is seeing how so many industries are optimizing short term gains in ways that will short change immediate clients, but worse, diminish prospects for long term growth for that industry.
There's a big difference between how "mom 'n pop" /aka locally owned businesses work to grow the base of customers and enhance every aspect of the experience. VS multi operation enitities that commoditize the consumer to benefit shareholders in ways that are less likely to grow the resource long term.
I'm not necessarily in favor, but with the 'net, it is difficult to understand why someone has not yet "bundled" consumers in a way that takes a lot of the power back out of a given set of providing institutions. With experience (to understand how they are used, and which areas tend to benefit most, among other metrics), the multipass systems could start to.
PS, it is a monopoly if, when you enter a system, there are no competing options for your "needs" within *reasonable* out reach. Food, Shelter, education, fuel; separate from the entertainment. US monopoly law used to understand that with many of the divisions that were once codified. Fine if you are Disneyworld. Possibly questionable if your entity is on "public" property.
smt
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