The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.<\/p>\n
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.<\/p>\n
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.<\/p>\n
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\uc18c\uc2a4\ud0c0\uc778 \ubca0\ube14\ub7f0 The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at … <\/p>\n