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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
One of the hardest lessons of young Sam’s life had been finding out that the people in charge weren’t in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/6953…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #nightwatch #samvimes #vimes #behindthecurtain #bureaucracy #chaos #control #government #incharge #officials #planning #power #rulers #thinking
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Here’s some advice boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 29, Night Watch [Vimes] (2002)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/3061…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #nightwatch #discworld #vimes #counterrevolution #cycleofviolence #government #history #instability #politicalinstability #politicalviolence #radical #revolution
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
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 the 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.Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8319…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #vimes #advantage #boots #investment #poverty #quality #rich #savings #spending #wealth
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@bhoutlook See also Sam Vimes' boot theory.
Pratchett, Sir Terry, Discworld.
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Saw this on #bsky, and throught I'd share here
#politics #economy #rich #TerryPrachett #vimes #money #costofliving
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Come and see Men At Arms at the University Drama Studio, Sheffield 19th -22nd February 2025 with a matinee on the Saturday.
Tickets are now over 50% sold out over all shows so get yours quickly or else you might not get to see what Ankh-Morpork has to offer.Ticket link 🔗: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/midlandplayers
#amdram #ankhmorpork #discworld #pratchett #sheffieldtheatre #sheffield #terrypratchett #vimes -
Afterw watching him on Black Sails, I have become convinced that, were there ever good #Discworld adaptations for #TV, Toby Stephens would make a fantastic #Vimes .
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@orangelantern @cymaiden From Sir Terry Pratchett: the Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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I was thinking about the Vimes thing (how the poor have to spend in the short term while the rich can invest in longer lasting products) and how it relates to Apple.
If you're at Asus or whatever and someone proposes making all their laptops out of aluminium, they get laughed out of the room. If you're at Apple Tim Cook just hands you $100,000,000 and says "good idea, call the big aluminium guys, tell them it has to be green, oh and invent a whole new kind of factory too".
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I was thinking about the Vimes thing (how the poor have to spend in the short term while the rich can invest in longer lasting products) and how it relates to Apple.
If you're at Asus or whatever and someone proposes making all their laptops out of aluminium, they get laughed out of the room. If you're at Apple Tim Cook just hands you $100,000,000 and says "good idea, call the big aluminium guys, tell them it has to be green, oh and invent a whole new kind of factory too".
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I was thinking about the Vimes thing (how the poor have to spend in the short term while the rich can invest in longer lasting products) and how it relates to Apple.
If you're at Asus or whatever and someone proposes making all their laptops out of aluminium, they get laughed out of the room. If you're at Apple Tim Cook just hands you $100,000,000 and says "good idea, call the big aluminium guys, tell them it has to be green, oh and invent a whole new kind of factory too".
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I was thinking about the Vimes thing (how the poor have to spend in the short term while the rich can invest in longer lasting products) and how it relates to Apple.
If you're at Asus or whatever and someone proposes making all their laptops out of aluminium, they get laughed out of the room. If you're at Apple Tim Cook just hands you $100,000,000 and says "good idea, call the big aluminium guys, tell them it has to be green, oh and invent a whole new kind of factory too".
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Conversations between Commander #Vimes and Lord #Vetinari are just the best. I love every dialoge between them.
Sir Terry #Pratchett was such an amazing word artist.
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Lady Sybil Ramkin accounts for probably 50% of all wig sales in Ankh Morpork.
We know she keeps her hair short due to the swamp dragons habit of being adorable little incendiary bombs.
Not only has she got a selection of wigs for special occasions, but I imagine quite a few get damaged when she gets called to the pens because one of them has an upset stomach, so she runs down in full refinery, forgetting the kindling she's wearing. -
The unfortunate reality is that this phenomenon extends far, far beyond boots, and is by no means limited to the pages of fiction. In our capitalist society, almost everything that's used by rich and poor alike seems to be designed to be cheaper and easier for the rich, from durable goods, to banking services, to healthcare, and beyond.
In fact, it's such a big problem (in my eyes - rich people don't think it goes far enough) that one could fill up and hour-long video (including ads) just digging into why it's so damned expensive to be poor. If only there were people who did that sort of thing.
#TerryPratchett #Vimes #EconomicInequality #WealthInequality
https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2023/02/09/some-more-news-why-being-poor-is-so-expensive/