Thorstein Veblen Quote

In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help.


p. 65-66. - The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)


In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make ...

In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make ...

In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make ...

In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make ...