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by donmcronald 21 days ago
I think part of it is that as the incentive for new entrants goes up, some of those entrants are downright awful. So, there’s a risk of getting someone terrible, the reward of getting someone awesome, and the existing choice of getting predictable mediocrity.

A lot of small business owners in the trades are pretty bad at the business side of things, even if they do great work.