I mean this in a neutral way - this is basically just Marx's critique or capitalism. The part about small time investors identifying with their own perception o

I mean this in a neutral way - this is basically just Marx's critique or capitalism. The part about small time investors identifying with their own perception of being a real investor is the petit bourgeois dynamic that Marx spoke of, in the era of Robinhood and 401ks. I'm confident the author knows this (and perhaps even takes it from there), and decided to leave it out, probably for a good reason.