chimaeraundying:
“  “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...

chimaeraundying:

“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.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

(Men At Arms: The Play, Terry Pratchett, 1993)

  1. andrea-wreaks-havoc reblogged this from bernardo-reblogs-shit
  2. pleaseelaborate reblogged this from ayahoes
  3. jerassicjesse reblogged this from cute-evil-cookie
  4. turoxy reblogged this from takenforpomegranate
  5. dreamersmantra reblogged this from ugli-ly
  6. ugli-ly reblogged this from ayahoes
  7. ayahoes reblogged this from baku5ds
  8. baku5ds reblogged this from cute-evil-cookie
  9. dorkwolf-marejai reblogged this from bernardo-reblogs-shit
  10. bernardo-reblogs-shit reblogged this from citrono-kirbo47
  11. citrono-kirbo47 reblogged this from takenforpomegranate
  12. takenforpomegranate reblogged this from takenforpomegranate
  13. cannibledonner reblogged this from youareacherryblossom
  14. youareacherryblossom reblogged this from certified-toad-chauffeur
  15. certified-toad-chauffeur reblogged this from mostrandomfaves
  16. howonpotter reblogged this from meechwoods
  17. creeptec7465389 reblogged this from w0wls
  18. mojokittykittysrevenge reblogged this from solitaryfossil
  19. taygertot reblogged this from solitaryfossil
  20. solitaryfossil reblogged this from gasparo73
  21. gasparo73 reblogged this from useyourblinker
  22. millennial-review posted this