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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 root
- From Latin for hope and a favorable journey
- paradox
- Lottery winners often report happiness reverting within months
- gospel branded
- Megachurches preach wealth as proof of divine favor
- easterlin paradox
- Richer nations don't always report happier citizens
- ancient symbol
- Romans worshipped a goddess named Felicitas for it
singapore — city-state with $72,000 gdp per capita, transformed from colonial port to wealthy nation in 50 years
dubai — emirate that grew from fishing village to $40,000+ gdp per capita through oil and tourism since 1960s
post-war japan — rose from 1945 devastation to world's second-largest economy by 1980s through manufacturing