Although her claim seeks unspecified monetary compensation, Ms. Principe said she is not driven by material gain.
"That's a billionaire circle, right?" Mr. Gupta's friends adamantly dispute the notion that he was driven by material gain.
The more the women emulate the men on a grand operational scale, the more they measure success by material gain, the more they become subject to those arbitrary existential standards, to the tainted male model.
The classic case is the billionaire who sees that everyone wants to be their friend, but in the billionaire's eyes none of those are effective, because they are seen as being motivated by material gain.
Doctors had already identified a Munchausen syndrome, which referred to patients who feign illness or harm themselves in order to secure attention and sympathy — unlike malingerers, whose fakery is motivated by material gain (receiving a disability check, staying home from work).
For many the goal is material gain, but profit is by no means the only motive.
These include incentivizing those strongly motivated to hold office for material gain to take power by force or exercise it in oppressive ways that help reinforce oppressive governments' abilities to retain control.
Financial incentives, any material gain or valuable consideration obtained by those directly consenting to the process [ 8], can be in the form of cash payments, contributions to burial expenses, tax breaks, health insurance for the immediate family, college scholarship for children, or donation to a charity of the donor choice [ 2, 9].
They can help identify and quash the habitual patterns of thinking that keep us unsatisfied, by gaining realistic expectations of others, but also by not expecting material gain to make us any happier, and accepting that everything in life is transient.
We have been taught to fear empathy as a means of survival by extension of material gain.
