I think the economy would be much better if it rewarded risk taking (in a sense that a person has a plan to conquer the status quo and executes it) more in cont

I think the economy would be much better if it rewarded risk taking (in a sense that a person has a plan to conquer the status quo and executes it) more in contrast to rewarding the behavior that makes the big ones even bigger. Index investing does not necessarily trickle down, because it channels the capital not to cover companies investments but to buy them from existing shareholders.