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Originally Posted by nabsltd
This just points out one of the largest issues with poverty...being forced to pay too much per "unit" because you don't have enough money to buy larger quantities or amortize the larger up-front cost of something that will save you money in the long run.
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This is the Captain Samuel Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness (from
Men at Arms):
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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. [...]
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.
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