Have you thought about all the legitimate uses for a capital market? Say, issuing stock to fund a plant that will make a product? No one denies that investors w

Have you thought about all the legitimate uses for a capital market? Say, issuing stock to fund a plant that will make a product? No one denies that investors will play equities for short term gain, but for every one of those there are more who are actually deriving true value from this 'market'.