"Gee, I could have sworn that our stock market and capitalist system were designed to allow regular people to own a piece of those companies. Silly me!"
There is yet another example of you (KTC) not being able to understand what you read. Where did I ever say that our stock market and capitalist system were NOT designed to allow regular people to own a piece of those companies? Being a 'regular person' I own stock in several companies. None of them have made me 'rich' yet but they allow me to hope and they help me pay MY OWN WAY. Maybe if you learned how to live within your means you would stop complaining about folks who were luckier than you.