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«The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
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conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, consumption, gaining, pecuniary, repute, reputed, retaining
«Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure»
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