The Boots theory of socio-economics

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3. IMHO everybody gets Pratchett wrong

They think he's just writing satire.

Well, he is that, and primarily so at first, but when you look between the lines, and take his work as a whole, he's laying out a fundamentally liberal humanist vision of what society should be like, and how we can get there from here. This is most evident in his young adult Tiffany Aching novels.