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Det där är ju Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
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 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."
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
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 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."
- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Nu talar jag om en person som mycket väl skulle ha kunnat lägga undan 300 kr i augusti, 300 i september och sedan ha 900 kr i slutet av oktober att köpa vinterstövlar för. I stället för att lägga ut den sista kronan på skit varje månad. Som t.ex. att köpa drickor och chokladbitar på Pressbyrån, för att han blev törstig och hungrig när han gick på stan, och inte hade planerat för den eventualiteten genom att ta med sig en vattenflaska (eller en mugg för att dricka ur dricksvattenfontänen) och en frukt. Eller onödigt dyra leksaker som barnen inte hade någon glädje av, för de fattade att de nu inte skulle få några nya underbyxor, utan måste fortsätta klä av sig på idrotten och visa underbyxorna med hål i som alla skrattade åt.
Fler personer än idag borde vara satta under förvaltare, och det gäller i synnerhet folk som har barn som är beroende av deras ekonomi.
