Today there is, for example, a classic capitalist crisis of overproduction sweeping the high-technology industries. The overproduction crisis is in computer chips. About 40 percent of the computer-chip market is in Asia. But it's not just Bill Gates and other rich capitalists who lost money on Wall Street. Some estimates are as high as 75 percent of the population.
Many workers have no idea where their pension money is invested.
These funds lost billions in the crash. Even when the market goes up again, it doesn't mean that the winners are the same people as the losers. Much of the pension fund losses may never be recovered. The stock market is notorious for being a disguised form of capitalist expropriation of small savers. It is another way for the capitalists to take away savings and pensions of the workers and middle-class people.