That's exactly what it is, if not going long on human society itself. So far I've found, without fail, that everyone with a strong distrust of the stock market as something "rigged" or a belief that it's somehow an "expendable" part of investing that doesn't affect them has an objectively very poor to non-existent understanding of even basic facts of economic and business activity. Much poorer than I do, at any rate, and I don't really know that much.

In the USA probably Folk memories of the 29's crash are still having an effect

That makes me wonder; how on earth would you take a short position on Capitalism anyway?

That's what everyone who makes a fortune on the markets does, they extract value from the system to create personal wealth. The individuals desire is to do just that; that's how the system "works".

You could borrow money to build a secret bunker full of non-perishable food

Sell stocks. Buy shotgun shells and canned goods.