The Greed Machine: Why It's Never Enough

By Boris Kriger

Why do billionaires always strive even for more money? Why does a person with three houses shop for a fourth? Why do we clutch our shopping bags as if letting go might erase us from existence?
In The Greed Machine: Why It's Never Enough, Boris Kriger takes readers on a sharp, witty, and deeply unsettling journey into the heart of human acquisitiveness. Drawing on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, philosophy, and economics, Kriger exposes the ancient machinery that drives us to hoard, compete, and consume-long after our survival depends on it. From the dopamine circuits that hijack our brains to the manufactured myths of scarcity that keep entire populations anxious and obedient, this book dismantles the architecture of greed with the irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and the curiosity of a born philosopher.
But The Greed Machine is not merely a diagnosis. Kriger charts a way forward-through conscious consumption, circular economics, mutual aid, and the surprising promise of virtual environments and artificial intelligence. He argues that the same species capable of inventing the credit card is also capable of reinventing itself, if only it can learn to tell the difference between what it needs and what it has been told to want.
Part philosophical provocation, part survival guide for a consumer civilization on the brink, this book asks the one question most of us are too busy shopping to consider: what if enough were actually enough?
Keywords: greed, consumer culture, behavioral economics, evolutionary psychology, resource distribution, circular economy, existential philosophy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTMGQ61V
• ISBN13: 9798253295014
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"