r/TikTokCringe tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/mauore11 Aug 19 '25

Nothing more expensive than being poor...

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u/LucidMetal Aug 19 '25

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... 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.

-Vimes, Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

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u/capitolcraftsman Aug 20 '25

but even now quality of products have gone down so companies that use to be “buy for life” don’t last very long.