Affluent society
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For the book, see The Affluent Society.
An affluent society is form of society characterized by material abundance for broad segments of the population.
A typical image for the affluent society is the literary topos of the Cockaigne, a mythical land of luxury goods. Similar terms, used more in a negative context, are throw-away society and consumer society.