They can come, these days, from anywhere on the planet. To think the Great Game is only played by some elite WASPs who grew up in privilge in America going back to the 17th Century is utter nonsense.
I tend to think the impetus behind some of this Populist ideology expressed by these Wall Street Bet participants has to do with the jealousy of the elites in American society.
It's not just the elites in the Northeast they believe they're trying to destroy.
Shucks, let's face it, most everyone in America belongs to something other than the elites.
My father wasn't a doctor, a lawyer, a dentist, or someone who was connected to the tobacco and cotton farming where I grew up in a small city in Eastern North Carolina. I played the Biddy League basketball for a team that was coached by a man who was wealthy because his forebears owned the cotton seed mill. He went to Harvard, the business school, played varstiy basketball there, returned to my small city, created one of the earliest shopping malls during the early 1960s. It was called Tarrytown after the New York City bedroom community. He later went on to create a NASDAQ company called Hibbett Sports (HBBT).
As far as being envious or jealous or resentful, or something like that of the elites, I think what jealousy, envy or resentment that I had to overcome in order to live a happy (and, I might add, a happy inner life) was imbued upon me by my middleclass parents.
Some folks from that level of annual income are...shucks, most of them are quite content with what they get and what they have with what they get. I started to notice this in my goings about in the middleclass neighborhood where I grew up. I would ask myself: Why are you so unhappy when all these folks I encounter, the parents of my neighborhood chums, appeared to be otherwise.
One my schoolmate's father was a car dealer. This was during the mid 60s. They moved to the neighborhood from somewhere in one of those post War II houses that maybe was no more than a 1000 square feet. He owned the Toyota dealership. Later, during the early 70s, they moved to Atlanta. You ought to figure out how the rest of the story goes. Probably $100 million and up.
Only in America.
