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.
First time I saw this was in one of the Terry Pratchett’s books (bromeliad trilogy)
Imagine if Pratchett were alive today…