They could eat us or squash us, absorb us, or crush us, but they choose to be our friends. They could literally kill us, but some of them will even help us get rich. This era marks the end of the idea of savings, no more security for the spendthrifts. Now it's gambling and gaming, the lotteries, video bandits, and playing the stock market with reckless abandon. They are now teaching market speculation in grade school and junior high.
High finance is a form of play.
Start them young. After all, kids have no fear. They play the market with cold blood. We need to develop birdfeeder-like devices and things like duck decoys for humans. Images of flat stomachs with abdominal 'six packs' are excellent decoys for attracting 24 year old wannabes.