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The aim of accumulating wealth is to rank high in financial strength against the rest of the community
Drawn from what Thorstein Veblen said
What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
So far as concerns the present question, the end sought by accumulation is to rank high in comparison with the rest of the community in point of pecuniary strength.
Where this was said
↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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