Its characteristic qualities are held to be good, acceptable to the tastes of modern men whose habits of thought have been standardised in its terms; and it would be only reluctantly and by tardy concession that these modern men could bring themselves to give up that scheme of "Natural Liberty" within the framework of which runs this competitive system of business management and its wasteful Manifolding of half-idle equipment and nugatory work.
"An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation"
Thorstein Veblen