>There's probably some interesting commentary in there somewhere about the complexity of financial markets and how it is probably bad for society to have a vast portion of our economic growth riding on something most people don't get.
Not really. Financial markets day-to-day operations don't really affect peoples real-lives. Every industry is full of terminology and jargon that describes the inner workings but that isn't necessary to understand for the outsider.
The average person with a retirement fund just wants to see it keep and increase in value over time. They don't particularly care if the traders of that fund were losers/beneficiaries of a short squeeze on a segment of their portfolio, as long as the overall value keeps going up.
Kind of like how the average web visitor doesn't care what OS and database a site runs as long as it is fast and bug-free.
Not really. Financial markets day-to-day operations don't really affect peoples real-lives. Every industry is full of terminology and jargon that describes the inner workings but that isn't necessary to understand for the outsider.
The average person with a retirement fund just wants to see it keep and increase in value over time. They don't particularly care if the traders of that fund were losers/beneficiaries of a short squeeze on a segment of their portfolio, as long as the overall value keeps going up.
Kind of like how the average web visitor doesn't care what OS and database a site runs as long as it is fast and bug-free.