leisure class in English

class of wealthy people who do not have to work for a living

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1. He prospered in this country, plying a uniquely leisure-class trade, and then expressed petty contempt for his hosts.

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3. The ground of the superiority of hand-wrought goods, therefore, is a certain margin of Crudeness. THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS THORSTEIN VEBLEN The Crudeness of his surroundings made him sit up with a start

4. Conspicuous consumption "expenditure on a lavish scale to enhance prestige" is attested by 1895 in published writing of Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Vebeln, made famous in his "The Theory of the Leisure Class" (1899)

5. Her book The Sum of Small Things Anatomises it using fascinating American consumption data….Her intellectual ancestor Thorstein Veblen, in his 1899 study The Theory of the Leisure Class, portrayed Wasps frittering away money, but today’s cultural elite is engaged in a ruthless project to