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This meme is a humorous take on the concept of the "Boots" theory from the science fiction series "Discworld" by Terry Pratchett. The image features a quote from the book, which describes a character's experience of poverty and the absurdity of the "Boots" theory, which is a humorous and satirical commentary on the social and economic conditions of the time. The quote reads: "A man is a man, and his wife is a woman, and the one is not the other."

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big S James Foster ws [¥ @JamesEFoster Reminded of Terry Pratchett’s ‘boots theory’ this morning. It’s expensive to be poor. 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 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. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.