Yet another 25th of May on which I realise that I do not own anything lilac to wear.

Happy Wear The Lilac Day, everyone!

(Pic by Marisa DeMeglio from NYC, USA.)

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Happy new picture day! #Discworld #SamVimes

@enigmatico One of the things I didn't mention last time regarding printers is the general #poverty trap.

Or, you know, the general Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socioeconomics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

Sometimes you're forced into the objectively worst choice because you quite simply cannot afford the better option, despite knowing full-well it's the worse option.

Lending plays into that. If you can't get a loan, or can only get horrible ones, you have no good options.

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They arrived!!!!! Love the covers!

(Gollanz publisher, Guards! Guards! + Feet of Clay)

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I came across this rather accurate #quote from Terry Pratchett's "Men at Arms" #Discworld novel again:

«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.»"

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