The point of material difference between machine-made goods and the hand-wrought goods which serve the same purposes is, ordinarily, that the former serve their primary purpose more adequately.
Thorstein Veblen
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- The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899); Exact wording and attribution checked. Critique of social prestige and consumer judgments of machine-made goods.
- The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
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