UGC NET Reading Comprehension Q48

Question

Read the passage and answer questions.
While the entire world has been focused on the economic fallout of the corona-virus Pandemic, two other much older viruses have been lurking in the shadows for quite some time. Since these two viruses are non-biological in nature. they are vaccine-proof. One of them is marketplace-based, the other, mind-based. While the origin of the coronavirus may or may not be traced back to Wuhan in China, the two older viruses originated in the US. Silicon Valley has had a huge role to play in propagating and prolonging these two viruses.
The three seemingly disparate viruses are actually linked in major ways when viewed from the twin perspectives of cultural anthropology and economics.
The marketplace-based virus has to do with 'conspicuous consumption'. a term coined by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book— The Theory of the Leisure Class.

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