I would say that the stock market is a means of exchanging ownership of these exponentially growing assets we call companies, and that a public market exists fo

I would say that the stock market is a means of exchanging ownership of these exponentially growing assets we call companies, and that a public market exists for doing so is tremendously egalitarian. Any average Joe can become a part-owner of the Apple's of the world and ride with them to pre-eminence. Apparently that makes the average Joe a crook? I don't know, I don't see it.