Affluenza is the disease of the consumers. It is a disease that many in America suffer. Affluenza is basically the need to buy. Advertisers influence those who have this disease a lot. When a consumer with the desire to always have the best and newest things, see a commercial or an ad they immediately want to have whatever is being advertised. This is how companies make so much money. Many companies have strategies that aim at certain audiences. The most influential audience would have to be children. When a child sees an ad with a toy or a certain food the first thing they want to do is ask their parents' to buy it for them. Affluenza can start at such a young age because of many different reasons. Some reasons are advertisements and commercials,
