I swear to god, they're the chuddiest of small business owners and every single one does that shit where they have a huge truck and a huge suv for their stay at home wife and a boat and a ridiculously tacky mcmansion and an absurd amount of debt.
Like, is there some sort of grift where you can just walk into a bank and say you want to start a landscaping business and they just let you borrow an infinite amount of money even though you're only going to have income for like 5 months out of the year?
Even more disturbing is that a lot of construction workers are using the same bullshit as Uber to call themselves "independent contractors". So these companies will literally have zero staff, everyone gets a 1099, and these guys wives will have some cushy benefit package that they get on through her employer. I know two guys that pretend to be business owners when they are the stereotype of a labor aristocrat.