I've noticed that as well, buildings don't seem made to last anymore like I'll look at new buildings and I doubt they will be there in like 50 years some times, and those cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. There's a lot of "just good enough for now" quality to things, in stores too. I guess it all comes down to the stock marketification of our economy, all the wall street and investor worship crap, all the attention has been going to the people making it rich doing some easy shit mean while all the hard working people like those you mentioned are getting shit on daily, so it's very easy to get discouraged I'm sure, you really have to love your job doing those things but now a days a lot of people aren't taking jobs they love they are taking jobs to pay bills, so shit doesn't get done right anyways