Veblen goods are the exception, not the rule. Some products are just killed outright by advancing technology: the newspaper industry is doomed, those profits ar

Veblen goods are the exception, not the rule. Some products are just killed outright by advancing technology: the newspaper industry is doomed, those profits are gone forever now, because there's no market for "hand-written" investigative stories. Ditto music (to an extent), ditto cable TV. Some industries can survive being automated, most cannot.