Modern culture has a simple message: More is better. More wealth. More products. More upgrades. More success. More growth. The entire economic system runs on a single assumption: human desire should never stop expanding. But what happens when a civilization builds itself around endless appetite?

In The Hunger for More: Greed and the Culture of Endless Consumption, Kevin L. Whitworth explores one of the most powerful forces shaping modern society—greed. Once condemned as one of the seven deadly sins, greed has quietly been rebranded as ambition, growth, and progress. Entire industries now depend on keeping people dissatisfied, restless, and always searching for the next acquisition.

This book examines how that transformation happened. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, economics, and cultural analysis, Whitworth reveals how modern life has turned consumption into identity and desire into a permanent engine of economic expansion.

Inside this provocative cultural investigation, listeners will discover:

• How the Industrial Revolution created the modern consumer
• Why advertising learned to manufacture desire
• The psychology behind status competition and lifestyle inflation
• Why wealth rarely produces lasting satisfaction
• How social comparison fuels endless consumption
• The hidden mental and environmental costs of "more"
• Why ancient traditions warned about greed long before modern economics existed

From the rise of consumer capitalism to the psychological trap of perpetual dissatisfaction, The Hunger for More exposes the deeper forces shaping modern culture's obsession with growth.

Because greed was never dangerous simply because people wanted things. It was dangerous because nothing ever satisfies it. And a civilization that cannot say "enough" will eventually discover the limits for itself.