I most cases, yes. Hazard trees over homes...my forte and equipped for it, the hacks w/ ladders and rental gear take advantage of the sticker shock from the big yellow page ad outfits, offer just a fraction less and get the work. I'll undercut it much better than that and do it safer, cleaner, insured, and create a return customer.
Principle plan is something I've always lived with and greedy people can't....I'm more than happy with 6-8 hundred a week take home. I don't believe in paying over $12,000 for a personal truck and only when it's absolutely necessary (every 5-8 years), my home phone is adaquate for work, and it's quite a savings when I elect to not have a cable or a space receiver for entertainment. Also cut my own hair, mechanic my own possessions, and grow lots of what I eat.
Even more so, the higher the job pays the more everyone working it makes. It's led to efficiency, expediency, and precision teamwork. It's a "growth" factor and it's not taught or encouraged in modern business tact. To their demise and my success.
Yeah, it's kind of like war. Facade of success mostly means the basics have been avoided. All flash and no gas. The most disgruntled employees I've ever met were wearing the flashiest uniforms and driving the most expensive trucks. Imagry only works if the image builders assume correctly that people think like they do. I don't think most people are anymore. They've been had too many times ala Enron and presidential politique.
Think it's a go?