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The art of worrying about problems poor people would love to have.
means A great abundance of money and material wealth.
from From Latin affluentia, 'a flowing toward' — built from ad- ('to') and fluere ('to flow'), the same root that gives us 'fluid' and 'fluent.' The image is of wealth as a river pouring in rather than something earned or stacked up — you don't build affluence so much as stand where it happens to flow.
- origin
- Latin affluere, to flow abundantly toward
- paradox
- Richer nations report plateauing happiness past a point
- treadmill
- Lifestyle creep eats raises before they land
- economics term
- Affluenza describes guilt from excess, coined 1954