As to your last paragraph, what really gets me is this: However much you might save by cutting X corners, or how much you might make by selling someone somethi

As to your last paragraph, what really gets me is this: However much you might save by cutting X corners, or how much you might make by selling someone something they don't need, etc. -- there are hundreds, thousands of companies you're dealing with that do the same to you, to people you love, your co-workers, employees and customers, probably making your life much worse than your own corner cutting can recoup. It might not even make business sense in the bigger picture, because instead of a small slice of something that is at least pie you get container ships full of saw dust or something.