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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
I think it's an easy way to explain that "being poor is expensive". But most of the people who are receptive to this kind of messaging already are quite ahead of the large amount of people who would deny poor people's humanity whenever they can get away with it.
Folks reading this are already reading Discworld novels, so at least liberals and probably towards the left side of the liberal spectrum.