This is how the working classes are robbed. In the book protagonist Frank Owen states In a commentary for the Nation, Marc Burrows hypothesized Pratchett drew inspiration from Robert Tressell's 1914 novel The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. 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. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. 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 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. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. In the novel 1993 novel Men at Arms, the second novel focusing on the City Watch through Vimes' perspective, Pratchett introduces the "Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness" through Vimes musing on how expensive it is to be poor: In the Discworld series of novels by Terry Pratchett, Sam Vimes is the cynical but likable captain of the City Watch of the fictional city-state of Ankh-Morpork. Since its publication, the theory has received wider attention, especially in regard to the effect of increasing prices of daily necessities. In the novel, Sam Vimes, the captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, reasons that poverty causes greater expenses to the poor than to those who are richer.
The Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory first popularised by English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett in his 1993 Discworld novel Men at Arms.
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