Doesn't really make me that sad, since it once was a Stock Market, which often burns the unenlightened small investors and people who are "too busy working". This seems a bit like karma... I remember hearing about people who worked very long hours during the dot com days around year 2k, for stock options which first made them owe significant taxes, and then the options just wound up worthless after the dot com crash (before they exercised them). And it was right around the time when they needed cash the most, because they lost their job. It was a disaster for them.