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In what sense do Veblen's barbarians differ from our oil moguls?

The Theory of the Leisure Class: I: "In such a predatory group of hunters it comes to be the able-bodied men's office to fight and hunt. ... Their aggressive assertion of force and sagacity differs obviously from the women's assiduous and uneventful shaping of materials; it is not to be accounted productive labour but rather an acquisition of substance by seizure. Such being the barbarian man's work, in its best development and widest divergence from women's work, any effort that does not involve an assertion of prowess comes to be unworthy of the man. "

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