Where industrial processes are the concerns of engineers and their quest for precision, businessmen are motivated solely by pecuniary gain through purchase and sale.
Businessmen pay the wages of those engaged in competitive selling, such as salesmen, buyers, accountants and such, "not because their work is productive of benefit to the community, but because it brings a gain to the employers.
However, the relationship between “business” and “industry” was uneven as the latter could continue production without the need of the former disrupting the natural flow, in order to maximize profits, leading to a new economic system.
However, Veblen himself did at no point openly state support for any one type of economic system such as socialism, though he was in favor of state-owned industry.
Veblen describes this public credence as “naive” and “occult,” meaning that he believed this view to be comparable to a delusion.
Veblen's ideas and his work has been considered to maintain itself as being highly influential,[4] and has been cited numerous times in articles, and books in support of economic revolutions[5] as well as changes.
These particular works cite both Veblen's theory of the leisure class, as well as business enterprise in order to support their arguments.