Industrial wealth created the very leisure class that then condemned industrial noise

Evidence

It is a familiar paradox that the new technologies of production and communication that made their world so much noisier also provided the wealth, learning, and leisure time that allowed the middle class to first recognize, then revile, the ruckus that made them rich. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 158

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 158
• XREF: connects to: Victorian culture gendered noise as masculine and silence as feminine domesticity — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 163; Industrialists inherited the clergy’s license to make noise — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 263