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Thorstein Veblen

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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.” -Thorstein Veblen

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  • “The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.” -Thorstein Veblen

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  • “Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.” -Thorstein Veblen

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  • “The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.” -Thorstein Veblen

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