&gt; Pension funds, retirement savings, the top 1%’s majority of assets, and so on are all in the market so governments of the world have decided that the market shouldn’t go down, at least not very much.<p>Yeah, that&#x27;s kind of my worry with the move to long-term wide-spread stock investing for retirement.  Ostensibly, that strategy has done well, but once <i>everyone</i> does it, that prods massive political favor toward propping up the largest companies (that are getting this investment).