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Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

One caveat I would note: lots of people can’t afford expensive, durable appliances.

It’s expensive to be poor.

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zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sam Vimes boots theory

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.

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- Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yes, I’ve heard about that theory. The boot example is good because everyone can relate.
  
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drdalek@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
THIS.

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