gambling, gambling with house money, with income gained, hard earned, worth, actual, real paper money in bank accounts. FDIC insured. magic money, playing against the house, against other players, someone wins, someone looses, and that magical worth, the fictional dollar amount, maybe an actual correlation between stock prices and company worth, and not some magical estimation or valuation. ethereal cash. non existent. a mere thought dollar sign. annoying.an entire industry, life sector, the economy as a whole established on a house of cards. a magicians table. now you see it, now you don't.