Better, say the Skidelskys, to pursue the good life for its own sake.Capitalism, they note, has "made possible vast improvements in material conditions", but it also fuels human insatiability.
Hsieh (pronounced "shay") has changed the business so radically that, in July, Amazon.com, after trying to compete with Zappos by starting a shoe site called Endless.com, as if to sanction the new insatiability, announced plans to buy the company for ten million shares of stock (worth $790 million at press time) plus $40 million in cash.
By Becker and Rayo's account, this insatiability is hardwired into us.
Yes! Redesign the consumer for improved insatiability! Wider bodies, twin carburetors, more ponderous cams, more sludge in the engine!
And his Clinton, when the time came, was definitive: a McDonald 's-loving 's-lovingrping mooch whose warmth, desire for McMuffins and McRibs, foreign-policy acumoochand daily jog are all part of one blob of genius and insatiability and ego.
And teenagerswho, after years spent gorging on instant gratification (too-easy presents from eager-to-please parents, the thrill of the fast-changing screen), are restless, demanding, easily bored and said to be suffering from a plague of insatiability.
In four Superman movies, from 1978 to 1987, Jackie Cooper's Perry White conveyed his own kind of avuncular insatiability for scoops, as did Jason Robards playing the real thing, Ben Bradlee, in "All the President's Men" (1976).
After prolonged exposure to these smoldering doll-babies, it's hard not to long for some of the stubbornness of Lucy Ricardo Lucille Balll), the insatiability and bad temper of Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) or the nerve and self-possession of Mary Richards.
argues that the modern world is characterised by insatiability, an inability to say enough is enough, and the desire for more and more money.
Catholic Voices, an NGO which in February claimed the church had been "ambushed by a UN kangaroo court", urged the CAT not to give in to "ideological insatiability".
There was also no future as such: just the unending prospect of the double insatiability of need and want.
