The Quiet Elite: How Rest, Longevity, and Fitness Became the Ultimate Status Symbols
For much of the 20th century, the grammar of status was written in leather, steel, and silk. The luxury watch on a wrist, the handbag dangling from an arm, the supercar idling outside a private club—these were the unmistakable semaphores of wealth and social standing. Thorstein Veblen, the great sociologist of the Gilded Age, termed this "conspicuous consumption": the public destruction...
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