(1) In a culture beset by affluenza or luxury fever, many hard-working people who are employed full time nonetheless don't earn enough to pay the security deposit necessary to rent an apartment.(2) There are many exceptions to the rule, but a fear of affluenza has prompted some wealthy parents to disinherit their children for magnanimous reasons.(3) But the kind that presents to general practitioners and is counted in statistics as part of the growing crisis in mental health is a different kind of malaise, better described as affluenza than depression.(4) But the problem of affluenza goes beyond constructing a sound estate plan for wealthy parents.(5) A shift away from affluenza , if we're lucky enough to witness one, will come gradually, over a generation perhaps.
