Then I don't understand who this question is supposed to be directed at:
> Are there any activities left that doesn’t function as a form of conspicuous consumption?
My answer would be that none of the activities you list (with the possible exception of the kind of wannabe entrepreneurship the paper is talking about) are conspicuous consumption. But it seemed like you were directing the question at the authors of the paper, not me.
Then I don't understand who this question is supposed to be directed at:
> Are there any activities left that doesn’t function as a form of conspicuous consumption?
My answer would be that none of the activities you list (with the possible exception of the kind of wannabe entrepreneurship the paper is talking about) are conspicuous consumption. But it seemed like you were directing the question at the authors of the paper, not me.