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It's simply what Thorstein Veblen would have called "conspicuous consumption." And I think we can blame a lot of this on American attitudes that were generalized after World War II, and so that we ...

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Economist Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption” in his seminal book The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899. Despite protests to the contrary – few will admit they buy ...

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