The Theory of the Leisure Class

(2) subsistence must be obtainable on sufficiently easy terms to admit of the exemption of a considerable portion of the community from steady application to a routine of labour.

The conditions apparently necessary to its emergence in a consistent form are: (1) the community must be of a predatory habit of life

practice of seizing women from the enemy as trophies, gave rise to a form of ownership-marriage, resulting in a household with a male head