>>18919149
yes, it still matters what people buy or sell
and yes, the market still is functional
there will always be some bigger fish in the pond that can come in and buy or sell. if these kids weren't complaining about the fed or the treasury, they would just be complaining about something else (algos, hedge funds, pension funds, future traders, etc.).
the point is, anyone can freely decide to place buy orders or sell orders at whatever prices they want. It's a functioning marketplace. People who have lost money will always bitch and moan on imageboards or twitter or whatever, or you'll get redditors rolling through claiming that capitalism is now suddenly irreparably broken or the marketplace is all a hoax or whatever. They have the right to say those things, but they don't have a proper understanding of what a marketplace is, they're mostly just whiners