“Throughout history the most universally acknowledged program with money is that its pursuit is insatiable…The insatiability touches two areas—getting what we do not have and clutching on what we do [have]…
Insatiability is commonly linked with being consumed…Money almost literally seems to eat people away, drying up the sap of their vitality and withering their spontaneity, generosity, and joy…
Most important, the problem of insatiability provides a boost for the other great problem accompanying money—“commodification.” The rather forbidding word describes the process whereby money assumes such a dominant place in a society that everything (and everyone) is seen and treated as a commodity to be bought and sold…
The overall lesson of insatiability is that money alone cannot buy the deepest things we desire. Money never purchases love, or eternity, or God. It’s the wrong means, the wrong road, the wrong search. That is why the pursuit is vanity. “Nothing gained” is the final lesson of insatiability.” (cf. Mark 8:36).
Os Guinness The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003) 130-132.