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GameStop’s rollercoaster ride through the absurd machinery of the stock market has been fun to watch. It sent some of CNBC’s finest minds scrambling to Wikipedia to find out what Reddit is and allowed for Very Serious Thought Leaders to peddle all sorts of pet theories, like blaming GameStop’s unlikely rise on young men not having enough sex. A literal billionaire cried on national TV about it. But we all know how it ends. For a lot of people who actually invested in meme stocks, it won’t be pretty. And the rest of us will be left with the same broken economy as before.