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Wall Street's war against the GameStop traders is a reminder of who this system is really meant to protect.

A perfect chyron, so true! (Screenshot: CNBC)

As happens every once in awhile, the entire internet is pretending to know about the stock market in order to talk about financial news this week. There have been several good primers (which still leave me, an idiot who can't even budget, with myriad questions) about the whole GameStop trading kerfuffle, but …