You make a good point here, but clearly this is not the norm by a long shot. Most people are conditioned to be skeptical of service providers and not expect to get the real truth of it, and even get cheated by most of them for the sake of their profit margine. 

I would say this has gone well beyong just greed and or having such little care for thy fellow man. Business owners seem to gain a sense of accomplishent to be clever enough to successfuly swindle their clients, and get away with it. Like the thrill of cheating in a poker game and not getting caught. 

With my gutter replacement work my minimum standard is unargubly 8X that of Building Code: 1 nail every 4 foot span versus my 2 stainless steel screw set every 2 foot span in a stronger hidden hanger and better caulk. I also do many things that other contractors are unwilling to do, and at a more reasonable price to boot. Yet, I rarely have a client show me some hospitality to even offer me a glass of tap water on a hot Summer day, and I practically never get a tip for going the extra mile. I get by OK, but I cannot even afford health insurance, have no retirement options, and cannot even get on top of my credit card debt. I have no shortage of work. I have been booked over a year out for quite a while and turn away more clients than I have time to take on. 

Other scoundrels are getting filthy rich, yet I am horribly under appreciated for being so diligent and forthright. I refuse to become one of those scoundrels, so that is not an option either. I cannot seem to find an assistant to help me who has a passion for being an ethical contractor, so I've had to do this work alone for most of the last 26 years as a licensed contractor. Sorry if this comes off as cynical, but just seeing our reality. As we all know planned opsoecense is standard proceedure within most industry, even though it is littlerally intentional fraud! Besides the rampant poisoning of our rivers and ground soil all around us. Wake the *%$# up and smell the coffee burning! 

Ponder what you may be doing to contrubute to this cesspool we've created. That's the question here. None of us want to live in a world of lies and deciet, so why is this such a huge problem still? If we were to pass a law making  planned opsoecense  the crime it truly is, we could do more for the landfll issues than all the recycling programs put together, even if we had 100% compliance of every household to recycle. I have maintained a 95% recycle rate within my construction debris.