Retail investors and financial nihilism. Zero-commission trading, options, crypto, leveraged ETFs, and prediction markets; the young treat markets as the only lottery with odds.
Scaling Compounding now. Evidence is visible in company results and data. Largest effect expected 2020–2032.
Second-order effects
Meme dynamics become a permanent market feature; brokerages become media companies; a generation learns finance through losses; regulators chase gamification.
Its neighbourhood
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
- Manage income, taxes, and bills for the first time
- Revolving credit compounds against the borrower
- Retirement is now visible and must be funded from what remains
- The most dangerous decade for accidents, overdose, and suicide
- Compulsion outruns choice
- The state takes a share every year and must be told exactly what
Solutions it accelerates
Solutions it threatens
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
If this trend is real, these are the numbers that will show it first.