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In any case it was all brought into sharp, public relief, in the great [[market un-crash]] of January 2021, when the massed armies of the investing public — for so long a huge, docile cow, tethered to the stall and irretrievably wired into the great [[financial services]] milking machine — woke up and decided to have things ''their'' way, for once.  
In any case it was all brought into sharp, public relief, in the great [[market un-crash]] of January 2021, when the massed armies of the investing public — for so long a huge, docile cow, tethered to the stall and irretrievably wired into the great [[financial services]] milking machine — woke up and decided to have things ''their'' way, for once.  


Said milking machine reacted a bit petulantly, complaining about these nasty, predatorial day traders in their tracksuits making life hard for the brokers and their time-honoured, noble, sacred pursuit of extorting the American public. In the meantime, a turn of events characteristic of the information revolution, a great awakening was happening within the Reddit day-trader community, who discovered they were the ''product'', not the ''customer'', and the means of that transmission was [[payment for order flow]].  
Said institutional milking machine reacted a bit petulantly, complaining about these nasty, predatorial, well, regular joes, in their tracksuits making life hard for the brokers and their time-honoured, noble, sacred pursuit of extorting the American public. In a turn of events characteristic of the information revolution, there was a great awakening within the Reddit day-trader community, who discovered they were the ''product'', not the ''customer'', and the means of that transmission was [[payment for order flow]].  


===What ''is'' PFOF?===
===What ''is'' PFOF?===