Comment by gardenfelder

>Since the turn of the millennium, most American families have been invested in the stock market. Whether they came to be investors passively (by taking a job with a 401k) or actively (by buying Gamestop shares on Robinhood), the consequences for individuals can be profound. People who embrace their identity as an investor think differently, vote differently, and have different material interests from those who do not. “Investor” can even reframe an entire worldview: education becomes an investment in human capital, and is evaluated based on increases in future earnings potential; family and friends turn into investments in social capital, essentially call options on benefits to be harvested in the future. The capital metaphor becomes pervasive, like microplastics in our water and blood.