Is [0] the cheap shoes story you were thinking of? Here is an excerpt from it. > “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they mana

Is [0] the cheap shoes story you were thinking of? Here is an excerpt from it. > “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. > ... > 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. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-rich-were-so-rich-vimes-reasoned https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...