The head of NASDAQ even suggested a Tradimg Halt so institutions can adjust to combat retail investors better!
Elites: better leave some safety valves in the system. People have been getting angry in the last year.
I definitely feel I'm getting squeezed, even though I've increased my salary quite a lot since 2005, including moving continents to pretty good jobs in Europe. I can feel the squeeze in society, with friends that even in a rich nation with a good salary still don't look very brightly into the future. Climate disasters incoming, also propelled up by the elites (or at least delaying action against, inaction is an attack in this case).
People were tired, now a lot are tired, bored, unemployed and angry.
And practically a halt doesn't _really_ affect the prices.