Sentence examples for ego satisfaction from inspiring English sources
In my opinion your motives are driven by self serving factors around ego satisfaction and "making a buck".
"There is a struggle that is more interesting than pleasure or ego satisfaction..
During a previous time of economic transition, Victor Lebow stated that "our enormously productive economy... demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption... we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate".
Back in 1955, economist Victor Lebow wrote in the Journal of Retailing: Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions – and our ego satisfactions – in consumption.
RICHARD WEINER Miami Beach To the Editor: As an occasional blurber of self-help books, I believe that A. J. Jacobs neglected one important element in his essay on the ego satisfactions of the chronic blurber: The positioning of your blurb is crucial!
Guaranteed self satisfaction, obviously!
"Ego" is the satisfaction we feel when we know we have the approval of others.
Mumford goes on to argue that the "moral change that took place under capitalism can be summed up in the fact that human purposes, human needs, and human limits no longer exercised a directing and restraining influence upon industry: people worked, not to maintain life, but to increase money and power and to minister to the ego that found satisfaction in vast accumulations of money and power".
I found it irritating and unengaging, its splashy stylings not the product of narrative but ego and self-satisfaction.
For those of us who don't, the Leaf still ends up being an ego booster it allows the satisfaction of knowing we're reducing our carbon footprint.
