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Thorstein Veblen's (1899) arguments that the rich are lazy & engage in conspicuous consumption & leisure are refuted in light of the lifestyles of current billionaires, eg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, & Richard Branson. Veblen saw leisure as a status-placing activity; the rich "worked" at leisure, but did not derive any income from it. In Veblen's day, the leisure pursuits of the rich were publicly visible. Today, however, the rich do not exempt themselves from pecuniary activity & their psychology is not attached to ostentatious displays of wealth. The current rich differ from Veblen's time in that they are actively involved in corporate affairs, their leisure time is invisible, & they are not the exclusive holders of cultural capital. 4 References. M. Pflum

Let us submit the following proposition for consideration: the essence of socialist construction lies in the bid to appropriate the future and is therefore expressed politically, in the organised manipulation of time. What we ordinarily take to be the sine qua non of socialist relations, namely central planning, totalitarian rule and the abolition of private property are, in fact, epiphenomena. They exist as real influences on people's lives in the presently existing socialist societies, but they derive in esse, from the basic organising principle of socialist relations which is to restructure the popular experience of time.

"The rise of blogs and social media has facilitated an industry of self-appointed 'lifestyle gurus' who have become instrumental in the management of intimacy and social relations. Baker and Rojek trace the rise of lifestyle influencers in the digital age, relating this development to the erosion of trust in the expert-professional power bloc"--