Because stock bros be lazy AF. They can’t even be bothered to buy and sell stock based off of who is and isn’t doing well, so they utilize investment firms who offer safe and risky bets like ETFs and Futures respectively. Ultimately, everyone really just wants to to buy one stock, have it make them money that exponentially makes even more money quarter after quarter forever, and then do whatever they’d actually do if money were no object (I.e. actually live life).

We don’t live in a world where desire/need scales evenly with this desire for exponential, eternal growth, so capitalists, who promise this impossible prospect to wall street, exploit human fears, desires, needs however they can (union busting, lobbying, etc.)

Carlin ultimately said it best in what has to be one of the greatest bits of all time, on The Big Club.