Lemme explain why that is: When I got into construction, a construction company was an owner/salesman and four guys who did everything from digging the foundation to putting in the last cabinet screw. When the housing boom happened, everyone learned only one part of the process and none of the rest. Capitalism stepped in and said “we need to sell products with the least amount of skill to install them!” and we got shit like wire closet shelving with sheetrock anchors instead of installers who know what a stud is and how to find one. I have to do every trade now, and I also have to deal with guys who needed a job so they ran to Home Depot and bought some tools and are calling themselves handymen without any experience and they’re fucking up everything right and left because they don’t know even the most basic physics concepts. One of them grew and sold weed all his life and now he’s out of business because of legalization. He has no other option but to be a laborer and he’s not smart enough to understand the job he’s doing. Another was a pro water sports guy and he is actually destroying the things he is hired to work on and I am having to redo all of it. He ran plumbing in a house with no P-traps and stunk the house up with sewer gas ffs.