In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum. (Thorstein Veblen)

In modern civilized communities... the members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum.

Thorstein Veblen

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