• Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class

    Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class

    I was bewildered when I encountered a new social class at Yale four years ago: the luxury belief class. My confusion wasn’t surprising given my unusual background. When I was two years old, my mother was addicted to drugs and my father abandoned us. I grew up in multiple foster homes, was then adopted into …