Thorstein Veblen Quote

However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods.


p. 32. - The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)


However widely, or equally, or fairly, it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this...

However widely, or equally, or fairly, it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this...

However widely, or equally, or fairly, it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this...

However widely, or equally, or fairly, it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this...