Reminds me of Captain Vime’s theory from Pratchett’s Men at Arms: “But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty d

Reminds me of Captain Vime’s theory from Pratchett’s Men at Arms: “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”