Go over to the nearest new car lot. Take a look at the prices charged for vehicles that used to hover around $3,500 when I was a teenager. Justify that. Then go for a drive in one to the best neighborhood in your city. Check out the prices asked for purchasing one of those pricey homes. In the millions. Justify that. Get your wife pregnant. The doctor who delivers the baby will spend a grand total of about 5 actual minutes average in the delivery room, nurses do all the real work, he gets about $5,000 for it. Justify that. Drive over to a Tom Cruise movie. He gets about $20 million to star in it. Justify that. Why should electrical contractors have to feel that they need to provide work to the public at the lowest possible cost in order to "justify" themselves?