Since a lot of people seem eager to condemn Redditors playing the stock market, and PLAYING it, I offer this handy checklist of everything you should be sure to condemn first before them.

1. Everyone on Wall Street who caused the 2008 financial meltdown from which millions have never recovered.

2. Every legislator who, since the 1980s, voted for tax cuts for the rich and corporations and voted to allow Wall Street to do riskier and riskier things with pension money and combining lines of business and such.

3. The handful of wealthy families and wealthy individuals on the right who, feeling scared in the 1970s, organized a sustained hijacking of the American commons, from the Powell Memo to the present, a hijacking still aloft.

See the books DARK MONEY and EVIL GENIUSES.

4. The philanthrocapitalists who donated some ill-gotten spoils of plutocracy and elbowed their way to the helm of Social Change, Inc., laundering their reputations, dousing anger just enough to keep the scam going, and intensifying rather than reducing their grip on public life.

5. The more pliant elements of the business press, which, as the country became an oligarchy, as tens of millions began to live permanently dead-end lives because of oligarchy, completely failed to tell that story, sticking instead to the fellatial variety of journalism.

6. The financial regulators who didn't regulate but did hold out for terrific jobs later on at banks or lobbying firms. The financial-sector prosecutors who did not prosecute and also ended up working for their former targets.

7. The successive White Houses that hired top executives from the economic-arson firms to firefight the problem of rising inequality.

8. The private-equity firms whose entire business model was stripping companies bare, levering them up with debt and forcing them to Swiss-cheese people's pensions, move to dynamic scheduling, outsource, subcontract, layoff, and worse.

9. The universities that sold Wall Street tycoons drive-through reputational laundromat services, and did nothing as half of their graduating classes went into socially unproductive business work that was yanking inequality wider and wider and gutting opportunity.

So celebrate the #GameStop uprising if you want to celebrate it. And condemn it if you want to condemn it. But if the latter, please be sure to condemn every other far more deserving actor first.

And, by all means, please add to my all too brief list, below!