#tweets

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anyway

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a tweet by Rohan Talbot (@/rohantalbot) that says, "No economist will ever come up with a better description of why being poor is so expensive than Terry Pratchett. Such a great quote." attached is an image of a page that 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-Morpork 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 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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Ronen Rubinstein via Twitter - March 21, 2023.

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bullet train + tweets (1/?)

[mccools]

losing my fucking MIND over this

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i feel this on every level

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[unbotheredmuse]

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Ronen Rubinstein via Twitter - March 21, 2023.

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