Á Direita e á Esquerda

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

In practice, the major argument given for licensure by its proponents is [...] rather a strictly paternalistic argument that has little or no appeal. Individuals, it is said, are incapable of choosing their own servants adequately, their own physician or plumber or barber. In order for a man to choose a physician intelligently, he would have to be a physician himself. Most of us, it is said, are therefore incompetent and we must be protected against our own ignorance, by seeing to it that people are not served by incompetent physicians or plumbers or barbers.