Folks very familiar with the event we are witnessing have been talking about this for ages. Would you like to know more?

I'm a capitalist but I don't appreciate crony capitalism

Bang on.

Real capitalism is useful when practiced on a small scale and moderated with healthy moral standards. But short selling, puts, calls, and CDOs, etc. are far away from capitalism’s original purpose! They are gaming, pure and simple. Government regulators have failed, right?

It’s not unexpected, Marianne. It’s only been a matter of time. What is interesting to watch is the tilt—the power shifts as people use tech more effectively to unite. They are identifying the games and strategies used by the power brokers and innovating to force progress/shifts.

You forget to mention that the OG capitalists are now begging for socialist bailouts.

Unfortunately, the capitalists have won by getting Discord to shut down WallStBets' subreddit account on totally non-valid grounds, so it's all come to a stop and the Wall St market manipulators can go back to doing exactly what they got caught out at unimpeded.

Sound interesting ... but ... in the long term ... destructive!

Or they will use their new found funding to purchase some large pizzas from Papa John’s much like the early buyers of bitcoin did. That would be my guess. Of course the new profiteers need to cash out now before the new president jacks the capital gains rate on them.