Banks are not the reason though, it is the fact that people think they could get rich and less and less people have that feeling nowadays which lost a lot of points to banks
Truly, people believe in that fact these days. Getting rich, or having that bag of stash which will make them disappear from grim reality of Huss and fuss world. Nothing wrong in that.
However, you truly stated as mentioned below....
Back in the day "you have a chance to be rich" was something more people believed in, if you asked people if they had a chance to be super rich one day 40 years ago, a lot more people would say they have that possibility, now if you ask them to people they are focusing on surviving let alone getting rich so that feeling is gone.
In a way it’s gone but not completely I believe. Honestly even a day trader thinks he would make thousands of bucks with cryptocurrency because it’s way volatile and modern opportunity. But how much successful it is? May be not much for the small investors but do have influencing power for big institutes.
Who made the most profits from that feeling? Banks because banks and investment banks specifically allowed people to invest into stocks so that when they retire they would have millions of dollars waiting for them, now that people know it is a very very rare chance they could have that, they are not doing it as much as they used to.
And same thing is happening with the crypto currency exchanges as well. Big stash is going into their holdings and big investors are making corrections in the margins and earning nice profits. The smaller traders are getting crushed middle of this. So yeah, we never know what is right here.