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Rules for fools 荒唐的条例 The terrible threat of unlicensed interior designers 对无牌室内设计师的可怕威胁 IN 1941 Franklin Roosevelt added two new items to Americas ancestral freedoms of speech and worship: freedom from fear and freedom from want. Todays politicians offer a far more generous menu: freedom from unlicensed hair-cutters, freedom from cowboy flower-arrangers and, most important of all, freedom from rogue interior designers. What is the point of enjoying freedom from fear or want, after all, if you cannot enjoy freedom from poorly co-ordinated colour schemes? 1941年富兰克林.罗斯福给美国先前的言论自由和信仰自由条例再加了两个项目：免于恐惧的自由和免于匮乏的自由。今天的政治家却提供了一张更体面的菜单：免于无牌理发师的自由，免于无牌插花师的自由，更重要的是，免于无牌室内设计师的自由。如果不能避免不协调的配色方案，那么享受免于恐惧与匮乏的意义又何在呢? In the 1950s, when organisation man ruled, fewer than 5% of American workers needed licences. Today, after three decades of deregulation, the figure is almost 30%. Add to that people who are preparing to obtain a licence or whose jobs involve some form of certification and the share is 38%. Other rich countries impose far fewer fetters than the land of the free. In Britain only 13% of workers need licences . | 
