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. – Thorstein Veblen
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. – Thorstein Veblen
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