You sound like a commie.
And you sound like a foolish idiot who simply sees the world as you have been programed to see it. Never lifting your head up from the group of sheeple you are with in order to look around and evaluate, and compare to the past when times were much better. Capitalism is great, and of course it is the American way. But it still needs rules and limits because some people will do anything to find someone to take advantage of.
You know that under pure capitalism all those phone and internet spammers who create fraudulent schemes to steel all of grandma.s money under false pretenses would be nothing more than good capitalist’s. They would not be criminals at all. And bank robbers would just be good capitalist’s. You really should stop Bahhhaa-ing and lift you head up once and a while to reality.
The stock market used to be about evaluating a company and maybe making money if that company improved. In that sense your profit for your investment was tied to contributing to something real. Something that created jobs and helped the rest of the country. You got a reward and a profit. People were in for the long hall. Now it is mostly just a roulette wheel where people place bets on a rigged game. The value of the stocks have nothing to do with the value of the company. The big money is skimmed off the middle by people who are in one day and out the next. Those who know how the wheel is rigged.