The stock market is an addiction, just the same as state-sponsored lotteries and church-sponsored bingo. The hook is “uncertainty”, ambiguity, the lure of the future. These create addiction to self-drugs, dopamine more addictive than oxycontin. It’s physical but unseen. It changes your brain to crave arousal, any kind, and to encourage taking chances, even with criminal behavior and relationships.

It can be controlled with drugs or retraining. Awareness of the swindle is the first step. The stock market is a swindle. It does not help anyone but those who have privileged access.