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You believe this?—ask any tradesman, mechanic or PE—"Take care of your tools and they will take care of you" is gospel in those fields. The same, then, should

• dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  There's plenty of people in the trades who consider their tools disposable like work gloves but on a longer time line. In most of the western world labor is so absurdly expensive compared to material goods that it usually makes sense for anyone paid by the job (most people in the trades) to just treat tools as a cost of doing business and treat them whichever way gets the jobs done the fastest.
• pietrovismara 7y ago
  You may care about an expensive tool as long as it works, but you'll throw it away as soon as it breaks. A tool has no rights, and you'll never care about it enjoying working for you. Yes, the analogy still work for me.
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• ska 7y ago
  > "Take care of your tools and they will take care of you" In my increasingly out of date experience in that area, this definitely applies to "don't leave your wrenches out in the yard overnight, dummy" but usually not so far as "don't use that as a pry bar". In either case though, if the tool breaks you toss it and move on...