self-gratification

Which might be fine for twenty-something web developers just looking for a life of self-gratification and night clubbing.

Petty criminals are not big on delayed self-gratification; if they were, they'd be doing something else.

This can be another startup, or charity, or creating a new solution for world hunger, or whatever, but the key is that it can't be simple self-gratification.

And specifically his tariffs, but more generally his inability to comprehend anything beyond self-gratification.

Neither of us are in this relationship solely for the purpose of self-gratification.

People creating video responses as self-gratification might care a lot about it..

They are useless idiots whom I hate with a passion for their user-hostile self-gratification.

It's the lack of conscience and the focus on self-gratification.

We show up to criticize other people's work for self-gratification.

It doesn't matter in the slightest if I am popular on Instagram - to attempt such a thing would only be an exercise in self-gratification.

AND YET - there are things people can do which might be for their own self-gratification, but are definitely NOT as bad as some other things they could do.

As far as I understand (I'm a native Russian speaker) in English, selfishness refers more to self-gratification while egoism refers more to acting in rational self-interest.

Or do you just want to create a cool bit of tech for either self-gratification, or maybe "web credence", or "hacker cred" or whatever?

I feel compelled to defend myself as I don't live "a life of self-gratification and night clubbing" & your generalizations / stereotyping have hurt my feelings.