Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 6 months agoVimes’ theory of boots!
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.
rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Ah, thanks! I knew there was a name for it but couldn’t remember.