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Where people are habitually compared on efficiency, the instinct of workmanship turns into invidious comparison
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What Thorstein Veblen actually said
- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
Wherever the circumstances or traditions of life lead to an habitual comparison of one person with another in point of efficiency, the instinct of workmanship works out in an emulative or invidious comparison of persons.
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↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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