I think a lot of people aren't in it for the money. It's about sending a message. It's about striking back at the wealthy for the first time in a long time in the class warfare they've been waging and winning for 50 years. It's occupy Wall Street with less lazy grandstanding and by playing by their same rules. It's about the 1% paying their fair share of taxes and paying labour a living wage. It's about putting the screws to the same guys that put the screws to all of us in 2008.
Personally I invested $100, I think the average WSB position was an initial investment if ~$500. And as a collective, we've got them over a barrel. They need to buy 250% of all the GME stocks on the market to fulfill their short commitments. They overleveraged themselves trying to put a business and their 50k employees out of business for their own personal gain. To be frank, f*** em. Even if it all goes tits up, still probably the best investment I'll likely ever make.
I cashed out for 10k, bought all my shares back in the dip for about 6k... As a guy whose been out of work for 6 months, taking the EI burden off the tax payer for a couple month's is more than worth it. I'm going to ride it right out and squeeze em for all their worth. And if I lose everything, and they lose everything... Well I had nothing to lose and maybe next time they'll think before they play games with companies that provide value and all of their employees livelihoods... You know assuming they can recover from being collassally outmanuevered by a bunch of nobodies that go by the handle of poopfeast420 & misterfister69 in a public manner. These short-and-distort sellers don’t build anything or provide any value, all they do is siphon wealth from us little guys to themselves so they can buy their third yachts.
Hopefully the fallout from this provides some meaningful change.