The real story here is the markets are no longer a vehicle for class mobility or income growth if you are poor or lower-middle class, even supposing you make the right moves. Hypothetically, in a functioning, non-manipulated market, even a pittance invested *properly* by some broke sonofabitch, should see some modest yield. But thats not the case any more. And GME merely existed to highlight this very phenomenon. That making the correct moves, as people are constantly exorciated for "failing to invest smartly", as in "like the big guys do", is shown to be a farce on the larger scale. Why? Because the minute the bluff is called, we get to see what the market is actually about: Gatekeeping the 'poors' from the very game that wallstreets corporate-welfare socialists rigged to benefit themselves while robbing mainstreet.