1. **“Only rich people own stocks.”** Not true. Millions of regular people—teachers, tradespeople, gig workers—invest every month through index funds and retirement accounts.
2. **“Investing is expensive.”** Also wrong. Stocks are among the cheapest and most liquid assets on Earth. Try buying and selling real estate that fast.
3. **“The economy is collapsing.”** People have felt that way forever. Yet the apocalypse never comes—just new headlines wearing the same panic.
4. **“The economy will collapse *this time* because *x* investment is worthless.”** But worth isn’t decided by moral judgment. It’s decided by the market. You don’t get to declare value—the market does.
I don’t care about stock market crashes. Who gives a shit about what rich people own? The problem is the economy collapsing, as employers cut jobs and people can’t spend.
And that is -very- predictable, if huge investments have been made in something clearly worthless.