“Affluenza”
Have you heard of the term “affluenza”? It’s been defined as “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more” (Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic). Basically, the theory is that the need to consume and the desire to have more than others drive people who are financially well-off to a type of “sickness” where they don’t understand the consequences of their own actions due to their…