{"id":211043,"date":"2014-05-17T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/17\/take-boots-for-example-vimes-earned\/"},"modified":"2014-05-17T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T09:10:36","slug":"take-boots-for-example-vimes-earned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/17\/take-boots-for-example-vimes-earned\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Take boots, for example. [Vimes] earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances.   A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars.  But an <em>affordable<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing was that <em>good<\/em> boots lasted for years and years.  A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that\u2019d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years\u2019 time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time <em>and would still have wet feet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>\u2014Terry Pratchett, <em>Men at Arms<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/rascalbot.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">rascalbot<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This is how it is really expensive to be poor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/everydayworldasproblematic.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">everydayworldasproblematic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Pratchett doesn\u2019t get the credit he deserves for satire and social commentary.\u00a0Vimes\u2019 Theory of Economics hits the nail on the head perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dobdob.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dobdob<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take boots, for example. [Vimes] 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/05\/17\/take-boots-for-example-vimes-earned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2757,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}