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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Sir terry pratchett and the boots. [/quote]

Thank you to the pp who first mentioned the boots a few posts up.  And for the link you provided.  Very interesting stuff.  It breaks it down well.

The boots are a perfect example, because when somethings on sale, we feel like we're getting a great deal or we're being savvy shoppers... when in actuality, the store probably didn't sell when it first hit the shelves/racks, and the store in now just trying to rid themselves of the merchandise that the [i]actual[/i] savvy shopper knew not to buy the first time around.
Even on sale it's probably not worth the money / probably garbage.

Here's the "Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness" by Terry Pratchett:

"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 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 socioeconomic unfairness.
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With the rise of fast fashion, I don’t think this is such a good barometer of scarcity complex as much as hyper consumerism. Think SHEIN. [/quote]

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