http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Vimes_Boots_Index&feed=atom&action=historyVimes Boots Index - Revision history2024-03-28T09:47:33ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.0http://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Vimes_Boots_Index&diff=34273&oldid=prevGuybrush: Copyedit for tense2023-01-12T02:09:06Z<p>Copyedit for tense</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is intended to be a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of [[wikipedia:Inflation|inflation]] and supermarket pricing practices on the poor. The Pratchett Estate – and [[Rhianna Pratchett]] particularly – <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have </del>wholeheartedly endorsed this use of [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]]’ name.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is intended to be a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of [[wikipedia:Inflation|inflation]] and supermarket pricing practices on the poor. The Pratchett Estate – and [[Rhianna Pratchett]] particularly – wholeheartedly endorsed this use of [[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]]’ name.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Guybrushhttp://wiki.lspace.org/index.php?title=Vimes_Boots_Index&diff=34271&oldid=prevGuybrush: Expanded explanation and results of the idea2023-01-12T02:08:07Z<p>Expanded explanation and results of the idea</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Vimes Boots Index''' (or Vimes Boots Poverty Index) is an initiative created in January 2022 by UK equality and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. It is named after the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice|Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness]], as featured in {{MAA}}.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Vimes Boots Index''' (or Vimes Boots Poverty Index) is an initiative created in January 2022 by UK equality and anti-poverty campaigner <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[wikipedia:</ins>Jack Monroe<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Jack Monroe]]</ins>. It is named after the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice|Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness]], as featured in {{MAA}}.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is intended to be a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of inflation <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</del>and supermarket pricing practices<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </del>on the poor<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. One major motivation behind it was to highlight how cost of living data given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK, particularly the inflation rate, didn't adequately show this impact</del>. The Pratchett Estate – and Rhianna Pratchett particularly – have wholeheartedly endorsed this use of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Vimes’ </del>name. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is intended to be a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[wikipedia:Inflation|</ins>inflation<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>and supermarket pricing practices on the poor. The Pratchett Estate – and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Rhianna Pratchett<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>particularly – have wholeheartedly endorsed this use of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Samuel Vimes|Vimes]]’ </ins>name.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>News of the Index, and a call for data, was mostly spread via Twitter using the hashtag #VimesBootsIndex. Monroe initially hoped to publish a first edition of the index in February 2022. Soon after news of the Index was picked up widely in the press, the ONS acknowledged the shortcomings of their existing methods, and said they would include income factors in future assessments of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inflation</del>. This <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">change </del>largely <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alleviated </del>the need for the Index, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>so far <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it has not </del>been published.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One major motivation behind the Index was to highlight how cost of living data given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK, particularly the inflation rate, didn't adequately show the greater impact experienced by the poor. While inflation is frequently mentioned in discussions of the Index, it's also about the central economies-of-scale argument of the original Boots Theory: the cheapest staples are often not as economical as more expensive but better value products, i.e. someone with extremely limited funds can't by a month's worth of pasta to get the bulk discount when they only have enough each week for the cheaper bag that'll only last a few meals.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>News of the Index, and a call for data, was mostly spread via Twitter using the hashtag #VimesBootsIndex. Monroe initially hoped to publish a first edition of the index in February 2022. Soon after news of the Index was picked up widely in the press, the ONS acknowledged the shortcomings of their existing methods, and said they would include income factors in future assessments of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the cost of living. In fact, their first results were published in [https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/trackingthelowestcostgroceryitemsukexperimentalanalysis/april2021toseptember2022 an experimental ONS report from October 2022], which is basically the Vimes Boots Index in all but name: it documents the real change in lowest-priced staples between April 2021 and September 2022</ins>. This largely <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">replaced </ins>the need for the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">independent </ins>Index, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which hasn't </ins>so far been published.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Vimes Boots Index''' (or Vimes Boots Poverty Index) is an initiative created in January 2022 by UK equality and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. It is named after the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice|Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness]], as featured in {{MAA}}.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''Vimes Boots Index''' (or Vimes Boots Poverty Index) is an initiative created in January 2022 by UK equality and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. It is named after the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice|Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness]], as featured in {{MAA}}.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of inflation (and supermarket pricing practices) on the poor. The Pratchett Estate – and Rhianna Pratchett particularly – have wholeheartedly endorsed this use of Vimes’ name. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Index is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intended to be </ins>a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of inflation (and supermarket pricing practices) on the poor<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. One major motivation behind it was to highlight how the cost of living statistics given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in the UK didn't adequately show this impact</ins>. The Pratchett Estate – and Rhianna Pratchett particularly – have wholeheartedly endorsed this use of Vimes’ name. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>Index <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has so far been </del>mostly spread via Twitter<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, where you can find Jack as [https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook @BootstrapCook], and uses </del>the hashtag #VimesBootsIndex. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">11/01/2023</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there appears to be no evidence </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </del>Index <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">actually existing</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">News of the </ins>Index<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and a call for data, was </ins>mostly spread via Twitter <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">using </ins>the hashtag #VimesBootsIndex. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monroe initially hoped to publish a first edition </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the index in February 2022. Soon after news of the Index was picked up widely in the press</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ONS acknowledged the shortcomings of their existing methods, and said they would include income factors in future assessments </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inflation. This change largely alleviated the need for the </ins>Index<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and so far it has not been published</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Vimes Boots Index''' (or Vimes Boots Poverty Index) is an initiative created in January 2022 by UK equality and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe. It is named after the [[Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice|Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness]], as featured in {{MAA}}.<br />
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The Index is a record of prices of the lowest-cost staple foods over time, to demonstrate the disproportionate impact of inflation (and supermarket pricing practices) on the poor. The Pratchett Estate – and Rhianna Pratchett particularly – have wholeheartedly endorsed this use of Vimes’ name. <br />
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The Index has so far been mostly spread via Twitter, where you can find Jack as [https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook @BootstrapCook], and uses the hashtag #VimesBootsIndex.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index] – ''The Guardian''<br />
* [https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2022/01/your-best-ally-against-injustice-terry-pratchett Your best ally against injustice? Terry Pratchett] by [[Marc Burrows]] - ''New Statesman''<br />
* [https://thetruthshallmakeyefret.com/2022/01/31/bonus-the-vimes-boots-index/ Bonus Episode: The Vimes Boots Index] from ''The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret'' (see [[Podcasts]])</div>Guybrush