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The forklift should just be paid for by the employee. After all they should be strong enough to do work without one.

The better analogy would be "Tools should be paid for by the mechanic". Experienced ones tend to have $10K+ worth of tools that they paid for.

Your mechanic is an independent entrepreneur. If they work in a shop with other mechanics, they for sure don't each have duplicate $10k sets of tools.

Well, I am my own mechanic, and worked for multiple shops before I started doing this. Everyone owns their own tools.

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