> I went and bought rail stocks in anticipation for the inevitable outcome where individual farmers would pay more for access. Tangent - I don't know any other

> I went and bought rail stocks in anticipation for the inevitable outcome where individual farmers would pay more for access. Tangent - I don't know any other country in the world where the public is actively picking stocks like this. Given that, it's probably bad for the majority of people, I wonder if, at some point of US history, it was pushed upon people by some PR campaign (for example, by the finance companies who profit from it).