The leisure class -- Conspicuous leisure: status and servants -- Conspicuous consumption: women, luxury goods and connoisseurship -- Canons of taste: greenery and pets -- Admission to the leisure class -- Survivals of primitive male prowess: fighting and sports -- Conspicuous uselessness of education.
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