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1,500 Hours: Haircuts, Pilots, and Regulatory Capture

1,500 Hours: Haircuts, Pilots, and Regulatory Capture
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Paul Schwennesen
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I don’t like to brag, but I recently got a decent haircut from a competent barber. Not bad, eh? That very same week, I was also landed safely in a $375 million jetliner by a competent pilot. From a basic common-sense standpoint, the two services could hardly be more different, but from a regulatory and licensing standpoint, they are oddly, ridiculously similar.

Paul Schwennesen
Paul Schwennesen
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Paul Schwennesen is an environmental historian. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas, a master’s in government from Harvard University, and degrees in history and science from the U.S. Air Force Academy.