Thus, within the dominant class, those endowed primarily with economic capital--the commercial and industrial employers--express the sense of distinction through the pursuit of luxury goods and a carefully crafted opulence, whereas their counterparts--the artistic producers and University Professors--express this impulse by practicing a cultural asceticism geared towards the intellectually most demanding (and least expensive) forms of culture. (Weininger, p. 135)
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