I find it strange that you wouldn’t expect Boris Johnson to write fiction when he’s seemingly allergic to facts.

I find it strange that you wouldn’t expect Boris Johnson to write fiction when he’s seemingly allergic to facts.

Pretty much all the social commentary in Pratchett’s writing. It might be good character building but it could just as easily not be there and the plots would all still work but that stuff is what makes Pratchett Pratchett.

From Men At Arms:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … 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 a 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.”

I don’t think I’ve ever read a better worded description of the concept of socio-economic unfairness.