The stock market is the source of the economic corruption that has created so many problems in the USA.
The stock market is how companies amass ungodly sums of money.
The stock market is how wealthy people are able to own all the large corporations and gain all the profits.
The stock market is how politicians become multi millionaires.
The stock market isn’t capitalism. It’s an exploitation of capitalism. It’s a system of semi exclusive socialism that exists within our economic system as a component of, but not the whole economy itself. It allows any individual with enough money to join in and enjoy the profits of large corporations.
That’s the only barrier to entry. You need to have ‘enough money’. But how much is ‘enough money’? Well that depends.
See if you are a regular nobody everyday person, realistically you are not going to do much better than maybe 10% return on your investments. So let’s say your cost of living is $100k per year. Well you need $100k so you can live for a year. Then you need enough money that you will get another $100k next year. At 10% return you would need to have a million dollars invested. That’s a pretty high price and you have to be pretty good at investing. Despite technically being a millionaire this is still a stressful life.
Now let’s suppose you have $10m. You could take $500k and live on that for a year and you would only need to get a 5% return on your remaining invested money in order to have a fresh $500k again next year. The more money a person has, the less return that person has to earn and the less stress they have.
The stock market is the problem.