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

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.