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It's expensive to be poor. It's harder to get out poverty than to be born wealthy with family that has connections and opportunities. Spend your money extremely wisely, because it's the real way we vote in this system.

I've asked myself the question a lot lately, "What am I spending money on that's a waste perpetuating this broken system which I could stop spending today?"

The only way to rise is to be smarter than the systems designed to drag us down. If you need a clear example, just look at a casino.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Should be Vimes' Boots Theory, GNU Terry Pratchett. Many have said it, but he kicked it right in the nuts.

[–] Ddub@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The opening sentence is "the Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory"

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 52 minutes ago

Didn't say Pratchett's Boots theory, he was way too modest. I just personally think he's likely one of the best satirists of his era (happy to compare to Swift's Gulliver's Travels but with significantly more uplifting) and deserves the recognition, can we not stretch to title it with one of his more beloved characters, likely similarly modest, something of a lost art these days.(I will admit I should take it up with wiki rather than here, more comfortable here though).