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Re:How to assess the quality of garments (2014) by vanderZwan on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:07AM (#20506057)
So in short: Vimes' "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice is incomplete without taking the Pareto Principle into consideration as well
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Re:How to assess the quality of garments (2014) by natmaka on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:42AM (#20506240)
Many (most?) types of expensive things are thought to be "more durable" because their users take much more care of them (because they are expensive!) than of their cheap equivalent.
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