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- idea that purchases, interests of wealth were intended to demonstrate superiority
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- consumption of better grades of good is restricted to ‘leisure class’
- tends to ‘disappear’ under industrial system based on wage labour
- upper class has to curate their ‘taste’ in goods
- conspicuous consumption of goods is a ‘means of reputability to the gentlemen of leisure’
- idea of non-instrumentality to bought goods; e.g. a fast horse, wasteful other than racing