Re:The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor i...
by xlii on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:30AM
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I was curious and decided to check - there’s Wikipedia page about it. Looks like it Pratchett wasn’t first and took from general wisdom but that specific anecdote was popularized by the book.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory