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the rare wealth that buys time instead of just stuff, if you're paying attention
means The state of flourishing and doing well, usually in wealth and good fortune, though it can stretch to mean any kind of thriving.
from From Latin prosperitas, the noun of prosperus, "favorable, fortunate, going well." The deeper root may be the phrase pro spere "according to hope" — spes being hope itself — so to prosper was, quite beautifully, to have things turn out the way you'd hoped. It came into English through Old French prosperite in the medieval centuries.
word rootFrom Latin for hope and a favorable journey
paradoxLottery winners often report happiness reverting within months
gospel brandedMegachurches preach wealth as proof of divine favor
easterlin paradoxRicher nations don't always report happier citizens
ancient symbolRomans worshipped a goddess named Felicitas for it