Becoming Somebody Else
Posted By: SELaplana
“Writing in the much poorer world of 1899, [Thorstein] Veblen argued that people spent lavishly on visible goods to prove that they were prosperous,” writes Virginia Postrel in her article “Insconspicuous Consumption” for The Atlantic. That might just well explain why you see poseurs every once in a while in public places, flashing their “blings” [...]
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