BeMoreCareful

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... 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. ... 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 a 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.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

-Terry Pratchett "Men at Arms"

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is the person who thought: fires out west, must be a space Lazer controlled by a Jewish weather cabal.

I don't even know that someone could guess what she may be on about. Democrats, cabals, the actual files. There's no telling what's going on in that noggin, but I sure wouldn't want to have to rely on it.