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January 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Welcome to the Sam Times "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness. A term coined by Terry Pratchett in his novel Men at Arms.
A quote from the Terry Pratchett novel. Men at Arms. It reads: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Men at Arms
November 29, 2024 at 12:15 PM
craorach.bsky.social
Maybe they should be receiving mental health care for their group delusions.
November 28, 2024 at 6:16 AM
craorach.bsky.social
It's like trying to put water into a leaking boat.
November 27, 2024 at 11:44 AM