Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street Metaphors and Similes

Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street Metaphors and Similes

“Swimming Naked”

Wallis elucidates, “The economic tide going out has not only shown us who was “swimming naked” as Warren Buffet put it, but it has also revealed that no invisible hand is behind the curtain guiding our economy to inevitable success.” The emblematic nakedness alludes to the indication of scarce values in business which can be likened to a stripped body.

God

The chapter “When the Market Became God” validates the idea that the market has been elevated to the grade of God. Capitalists venerate the market in the same manner that Christians revere God.

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