Wealthy population with high consumption.

Wealthy yet disconnected from society.

In marketing and financial services, mass affluent and emerging affluent are the high end of the mass market, or individuals with, in 2004 terms, US$100,000 to US$1,000,000 of liquid financial assets plus an annual household income over US$75,000.

a 1958 (4th edition revised 1984) book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.

The "original affluent society" is the proposition that argues that the lives of hunter-gatherers can be seen as embedding a sufficient degree of material comfort and security to be considered affluent.