The junior’s main goal, he said, wasn't to make money so much as to frustrate the rich. These huge hedge funds take advantage of all the little people and small businesses." 'Bullying' the richĬaesar Rodney High School junior Mike Adams lost over $300 investing in GameStop (GME). “ know the value drops if everyone gets in on it, and they'd like to keep their close-knit community. You don't learn about that sort of stuff and that's intentional,” he said. “They don’t teach you about stocks in high school or public schools. Haynes – who’s triple majoring in English, Spanish and political science – is frustrated stock market classes aren’t typically pushed in public education. “This is an issue we can all agree on, the people above make their living off the backs of people below, and the vile exploitation of these hedge fund bastards has gone on too long and has caused too many economic crises,” the Polytech High School senior said. He pointed to allegations that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla aided and abetted the mistreatment and death of children working in cobalt mines from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. GameStop has been sinking since, with shares dropping as low as $53.Įlias Daniel, 17, of Magnolia, has been cheering for the Reddit army because he’s tired of seeing the elites gobble up the underclass. 28, following sudden and sharp increases in the stocks' value. Things got messy when trading app Robinhood began restricting its users from buying shares of GameStop, AMC and several other companies on Jan.