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Thorstein Veblen
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"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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Thorstein Veblen
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Happiness
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basis
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which
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature."
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Thorstein Veblen
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Happiness
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addiction
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sports
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therefore
"Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister."
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Thorstein Veblen
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Time
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labor
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pride
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wants
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