Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The time saving tools used by workers caught in the cycle of work-
and-spend often have environmental repercussions.
2. Consumption is not necessary for community, but neither is it antithetical to it.
3. Thorstein Veblen argues that the leisure class engages in vicarious
consumption, leisure and waste.
4. Conspicuous consumption, leisure and waste is that which is
engaged in based on individuals' environmental power.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False

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