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leisure class

Term applied by Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) to those people (aristocrats, bourgeoisie, nouveaux riches) who regarded work, particularly manual labour, as beneath them. Status was maintained not by the accumulation of wealth but by conspicuous consumption.



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