(TFT) Re: TFT Digest V3 #444

[Joe Hartley <jh@fripp.brainiac.com>]

Nils K Hammer wrote:
> There is an old anology that may be relevant to the
> prevalence of magic items. American labour thinkers
> said that a poor miner can buy boots for (n) dollars,
> which last 6 months. If he had (n*2) dollars, he would
> buy the good boots that last for a couple of years,
> and would save money in the long run. Since he can't
> scrape the extra money together, he will always have
> to buy the bad stuff in a bad deal.

You've just explained Wal-Mart.  As a friend of mine once said,
"they keep poor people poor."

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