This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Vimes' "Boots" theory comes up early in the novel, and has little to do with the emotional climax later on ...
The Watch attempted to adapt Guards! Guards!, the eighth Discworld and the first about Samuel Vimes, the drunken head of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, by default really, and his motley crew that ...