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· 04/08/2026
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![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.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m7hnpxhqan2z5gb4etye3rnc/bafkreigy63mx3daliqzmkn4arggjcrtt24xzc5dvjvvt6nqjlyixfp2n3a)