Buying equities in our society is done on a voluntary basis. What other possible pricing mechanism could there be other than people's opinion of what an equity

Buying equities in our society is done on a voluntary basis. What other possible pricing mechanism could there be other than people's opinion of what an equity is worth? If you want to throw your hands up in the air and call it funny money, because you don't understand what you're seeing, that's fine I guess. But understand the deficiency is yours, not the nature of the market.