The Original Affluent Society
To be affluent means to have a great deal of money or wealth and today in our society that usually only means to be wealthy and have lavish things but not in the original affluent society. This society would rather have a plethora of natural resources, an absence of an economic surplus, also energy from lots of people in terms of hunting and gathering. These natural resources are not exactly what comes to mind when thinking about an affluent society.
The European hunter and gathers had no sort of material valuable possessions. They felt no kind of material pressure except when it came to food and water. Natural resources that could be very pricy today like wood, shelter, and weapons were tools that they share no sense of belonging or greed. This definitely ties into Epicureanism's ideas of natural and necessary desires and how we should limit ourselves to these things if we want to be happy. I think we should focus more on these needs and spend less time focusing on the unnatural and unnecessary desires the world offers.