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text from Terry Pratchett; art by Higgs who's tumblr i've linked
i can't rember which book this is from -- i wanna say it's Men at Arms but it could even be Guards Guards. Higgs seems to think it's Night Watch, but I'm pretty sure it happened before that...
in the post here
Also is a liberal way to run around surplus value extraction inherent to the production of commodities in a capitalist system. Seems to think it's the merchants swindling workers and not their employers predominantly.
it's not supposed to be an economic theory. it's one dumbass thinking about how expensive it is to be poor.