What is your name for the hungry ghosts?

Consumers.

The one-percenters. ;-)

Empty suits.

Most humans?

Shallow fuckers?

Wetiko.

Ego

And, it isn’t just about materialism, it can be a the hungry ghost of power, control, knowledge, prestige, anything that props up the false self and feeds the illusion of superiority.

One can even be a slave to the hungry ghost of altruism, giving, helping to bolster ones own self image instead of genuine altruism which is self-less.

Shallow people

That reminds me. I missed breakfast…

Lol I love how ’‘republican party’’ is in the details. XD

I know what type of ’‘ghost’’ you’re talking about, but I didn’t really ever think of a term to encompass the type, since, as you say, every part of the world and its beliefs/myths all have their own names.
I know there’s a term for old Scandinavian beliefs, where the crew of a sunken longboat comes back as a ghost, eternally seeking whatever it was doing in the living. If Vikings were known for plundering places, then it would be a good example of what you’re talking about, ecxept I can’t remember the word. All I keep getting is Viking metal bands. :/

For this type of ghost, I don’t really have anything original…eternally damned? Maybe the headless horseman syndrome would also count, ecxept there’s a solution for him. Hrm.

@Symbeline Is it the draugr?

I think so. What I read about were Vikings who specifically died at sea, and Wiki says that there was a distinction between sea draugr and land draugr, so it must be related?

War mongers and wealth addicts.