Assertion: capitalism | /r/CapableOf | consume their riches
Facets:
value: conspicuously
type: MANNER
value: as a way
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: One key figure in institutional economics was Thorstein Veblen who in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) analyzed the motivations of wealthy people in capitalism who conspicuously consumed their riches as a way of demonstrating success.