One could argue that the whole situation came about because outsiders (Reddit users) caught the "experts" (hedge funds) with their pants down.
In 1999, the rational move would be to short tech stocks as they were over valued, but those who tried it lost lots of money because they didn't factor in how crazy investors were at driving up the price.
You can technically be right but still end up losing everything.
https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...