A Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

Thorstein Veblen

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Abstention Conventional Evidence Labor Mark Social Standing Therefore Wealth

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Thorstein Veblen
American - Economist
July 30, 1857 - August 3, 1929

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Joel Benenson

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Dinesh D'Souza

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Michael Crichton

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Chuka Umunna

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Robert Thurman

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Michael Pollan

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.