Quote#Desire
However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no…
Quote byThorstein Veblen · 1857–1929
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 32.
English (original)
However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods.
— Thorstein Veblen
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