affluence

Affluence creates poverty. - Marshall McLuhan

is private while squalor is public in our world. Ours is a world of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply... things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.. . . .There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. John Kenneth Galbraith

's penalty is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family. Arnold J. Toynbee

is the condition in which all the people's material wants are easily satisfied either by producing much or by desiring little.

Sahlins defines affluence as a condition 'in which all the people's material wants are easily satisfied.' . . . 'There are after all two roads to satisfaction, to reducing the gap between means and ends: producing much or desiring little' (Sahlins 1971: 49)

is the state in which you complain about the quality of the champagne.

Affluence is the state in which you complain about the quality of the champagne.

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