NEW YORK, NY—The economy trickled down to several middle-class Americans this week after decades of delays following a Reddit-spurred buying frenzy of Gamestop (GME) stock, fulfilling the 1980s prophecy of market-driven prosperity for ordinary citizens.

“I had my doubts, but the prophet Reagan was right!” said 32-year-old redditor u/FRENCH_FRY_DICK12, who made $60,000 from buying GME shares, more than double what he made in a year of driving for Lyft prior to what economists are calling the “Great Trickle.” “It turns out all we had to do was download an app, click a few buttons, and then it turned on the economy for us. Thank God it’s up and running now, because I was starting to think that Wall Street and the federal government were never going to look into the issue, despite what they had said.”

Not everyone is pleased with the redistribution of market capital.

“This is not what we meant by trickle-down,” said Melvin Capital manager Gabe Plotkin, who accidentally let much of his hedge fund’s capital trickle out due to having shorted GME stock. “These people have no idea what they are doing. What we were giving them before was a trickle, but now this is more like an economic flood. They aren’t ready for it and they’re hurting hard-working hedge funds all over the country.”

At press time, economists stressed that the situation was becoming more dire by the minute, warning that if the trickling continues unabated, people may soon start buying homes, taking them away from the banks that had spent years saving up to buy them.