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Instead Jaeger lays bear the spiritual ennui of a leisured civilization without real purpose.

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“We did this pause and were waking at nine in the morning to take leisured walks.”

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Studies over the years have indicated that the rich, unlike the leisured gentry of old, tend to work longer hours and spend less time socializing.

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For their part, the leisured gents asserted their superiority by making a public show of their leisure or, as Veblen put it, their “conspicuous abstention from labour.”

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I found it quite interesting: you’ve got the leisured classes who have become ineffectual and the downtrodden working classes.

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