Maybe people are starting to realize that the stock market is not much more than a casino:
It seems to me there’s this kind of lurking bug in capitalism. The whole system relies, more or less, on a steady supply of suckers. But the system is, overall, a good one. Some people have good ideas about business expansion and some people have money. Those generally aren’t the same people. So fortunately, growing firms are able to sell shares to raise funds. And since there’s a secondary market, it’s possible to make money buying those shares. So firms can raise funds and expand. Keynes said long ago that it seems unwise for investment decisions to be the byproduct of a casino, but for all its flaws the system has trundled on for 70 more years