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

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

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.

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.”

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