Actually, Anne, the term I believe is from the Bible…so the phrase, in one form or another has been around a very long time! Lends even more gravitas that it is a biblical warning/punishment and it fits those profit/value vampires (another apt descriptor!) very well. I do not understand those who strive for riches, and then for even more on top of that (pretty clear by my lifestyle & circumstance that it’s not an issue I have!)….I also like the saying regarding a job/career/goal: To make a living, not a killing. Also, to me, there is a sort of benediction in telling someone “I wish for you enough”. I think MAGA true believers are enthralled by gold-plated Don….from his toilets, his fake-fancy Versailles decors, to his face & his hair…all sparkle & flash. There is a Emily Dickinson poem (from about the early 1870’s) I especially like that speaks to this:

It dropped so low in my regard

I heard it hit the ground,

And go to pieces on the stones

At the bottom of my mind;

Yet blamed the fate that fractured, less

Than I reviled myself

For entertaining plated wares

Upon my silver shelf.

IMHO the TFFG definitely is “plated wares”!