alt Hacker News> Doesn't it strike you that if licenses for a banal service like taxi are that expensive, that this likely indicates political corruption?
Not necessarily. It indicates a profession that can be very easily abused to harm the general public and that requires some level of trust.
Not necessarily, but it surely reeks of corruption and requires extra scrutiny.
Most professions can be abused to harm people and require some level of trust. Imagine that a developer's medailon cost 300 k.