Retail investors generally make money by driving up prices, while experts can also profit by short selling.
However, exchanges and market manipulators only need to keep creating, creating new products for you to buy. A continuous influx of new items and tricks. Maintaining the total amount without decline, while the quality is disregarded.
If there is a contradiction between the increasingly growing material and cultural needs of players and the backward social productivity, it has now evolved into a contradiction between developed productivity and the increasingly scarce material needs of players.
Market manipulators continuously empty the wallets, while players stubbornly hold onto price discovery, with liquidity constantly being stripped away by new products.