A tale of two pairs of boots shows how the rich get richer in ways poor people simply can't

A tale of two pairs of boots shows how the rich get richer in ways poor people simply can't

Any time discussions of wealth and poverty come up, people inevitably start talking about boots. The standard phrase that usually gets thrown around is "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," which is shorthand for "work harder and don't ask for or expect help." (The fact that the phrase was originally used sarcastically because pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps is physically impossible is rarely acknowledged, but c'est la vie.)The idea that…