white-people-twitter-image-ids:[Image Description:The image is a screenshot of a tweet with a photo
white-people-twitter-image-ids:[Image Description:The image is a screenshot of a tweet with a photo attached to it.The tweet, written by Rohan Talbot (@/rohantalbot), reads: “No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote.”The image attached to the tweet is a photograph of a page of a book. It reads:“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-Morpok 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 a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in that time and would still have wet feet.This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of economic unfairness.”End ID] -- source link
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