Equity investing I think will always have some sort of a place. However, when the companies out there are all accepting melting ice cubes and many even store their treasuries in it, it's hard to find one that's worthwhile (especially when the sound money is monetizing such that it returns better over the long term than even the best companies can).

The thing about investing though, is that it was never something anyone should have HAD to do to avoid being robbed. It was something you did to make more money, by funding new businesses. Using your stored labor to give them the ability to turn that potential back into kinetic energy to fuel the engine of the economy.

When everyone has to invest just to avoid losing everything, it's because everyone's being robbed. Simply holding money should also appreciate in value, as the most broad investment of all: holding the lubrication that all enterprises make use of to conduct business. If it doesn't, the money is broken.