Hypocrisy on Wall Street

“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough,” a quote by Janwillem van de Wetering points out the unnecessary evil of greed itself, as it can never be fed. Just as Bud Fox keeps asking Gordon Gekko, “How much is enough?” The answer is, there never is. Greed is the bottomless pit that has enveloped not only a fictitious character in the movie Wall Street, but also even America’s little “Suzy Homemaker”, Martha Stewart.
Martha and Gordon Gekko are both prominent in the corporate business world. It is the hot seat for the root of evil, as it has already been mentioned, greed. Once “success” has been tasted, it never tires, as everyone wants more. “Success” being the one with the most money wins, but there is no money, it instead is the ongoing battle for who can report with the most gains, and claim that it’s “mine… all mine!”
Today, Martha may be meeting her very own demise. As the public eye finds that she ...