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« Last post by fohat.digs on Sat, 27 December 2025, 08:52:45 »
"The Norwegian-American Thorstein Veblen wrote a book back in 1899 called “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” a mixture of economics and sociology and philosophy. He coined the phrases ‘the productive class’ (people who actually make things) and ‘the predatory class’ (people who make money off the productive class).
Veblen said that most people are happy to have a decent job and a nice place to live and enough food to eat. And that would be a good goal to aim for. On the other hand, for the predatory class, having a good life is never enough. They won’t be happy until they have more money and more possessions and more acclaim than everyone else in the world. They want to be number one."