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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Thorstein Veblen: "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."

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Basis	Community	Conspicuous	Consumption
Gaining	Good	Goods	Highly
Industrial	Leisure	Means	Name
Organized	Pecuniary	Repute	Rests
Retaining	Showing	Strength	Ultimately

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