conspicuous consumption

For Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.”

As recently as a few years ago, buying and driving a hybrid was an exercise in conspicuous consumption.

They brag about their conspicuous consumption Jay-Z, eat your heart out.

I am talking about work from Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov on conspicuous consumption and race.

The Valley is a strange blend of workaholism and conspicuous consumption, hot tubs and traffic jams.

The need of vicarious leisure, or conspicuous consumption of service, is a dominant incentive to the keeping of servants.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

High-bred manners and ways of living are items of conformity to the norm of conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption.

No class of society, not even the most abjectly poor, forgoes all customary conspicuous consumption.

This isn't the old-time expanding economy based on obsolescence and conspicuous consumption.