Get your ass down to Tao and do something if it means that much to you. Angry old man...
exactly the response i expected from an idiot like yourself. blinkered, unquestioning and accepting. like so many others.

if anything is to be done then it is up to the locals and the authorities there, and of course why would they. its only foreigners who are affected.
and so long as foreigners are willing to turn up there to be extorted and made fools of why should anything change. only when their cash cow dies will change be implemented.

but i wouldnt expect you to understand that. you dont speak the language, you dont read the thai newspapers, you probably dont know many thais and those you do know are probably stubbornly patriotic and would not want to poison the mind of a foreigner with anything resembling reality, so you are, like so many expats, smiling, receptive, grateful and happy to be fed, watered and constantly and uncritically complimented.