We covered this like 300 pages ago so just a brief mention.
-Jeets don't have a positive or good opinion on the sanctity of life. Their life expectancy is like 35 over there.
-Jeets know that there are millions of other jeets ready to snap up their job in seconds, they know they are worthless. In India, asking for proper equipment or anything to do the job = probably they fire you same day and find some even more worthless jeet who will work for 30 cents an hour less.
-If you think you are going to live to be 35 then you will see buying decent shoes as a burden, it'd be like buying life insurance if you're 20 in America - you most likely aren't going to die at 20 so that's why they only sell life insurance to old people.
-Jeets think they are smarter and better than you for jugaad-ing everything so they see sandals as a life hack.
So when it comes time to buy shoes they won't spend 10 more dollars because they think it is India over here again and say "fuck it, I'll probably just get run over by another truck tomorrow anyway so I'd be better off spending the $10 on skin whitening cream and trying to lie my way into a higher job".
Wearing sandals in particular as a trucker is suicide because your sandals can fucking get stuck on the gas pedal. But it's ok, as a jeet, maybe that's better because now you can cause another massive flaming pile up then become the new jeet media star for a week and have blue lawyers fund you for a while so they can start their career if they win your stupid case. Jeets don't care if they cause another massive pileup, as long as they get 3 weeks of free jail food, who cares if 5 entire families died etc