How do tattoo parlors feel about everyone wanting to get tattoos
these days?  Not all seem to be as happy about it as you might
expect.  The Priceonomics Blog took an in-depth look, asking
some local tattoo parlors about the increasingly-
popular phenomenon:  Despite the rebel associations of tattoos,
artists recognize that what they do “changes people” and they
exercise that responsibility wisely. Every tattoo artist we met
described talking with teenagers who came in asking for tattoos
on their face, hands, or other visible areas. Tattoos aren’t as
taboo as they once were, but even with adults, artists recommend
that people don’t get tattoos in visible places unless they’re
established, retired, or in a more welcoming industry.  Why give
up the possibility for profit? “Because it’s the right thing to
do,” Paul Stoll, owner of Body Manipulations in San Francisco’s
Mission neighborhood told us. “You don’t want to go home knowing
that you changed an 18 year old’s life for the worse. Tattoos
should be empowering