Stock Market itself is a form of propaganda. The average techbro owns nowhere near enough to live off of it (i.e. like the bourgeois) but it serves as a permanent source of anxiety, keeping them chained to the forces of the market and the stability of the capitalist system. The only people who actually become rich off of it are those who own enough to influence it, i.e. the people who're already bourgeois. This is why crypto shit became so big - knowingly or not, people realized that kind of explosive, exponential return was the only way to actually become rich. And, of course, it is now used by the already rich to exploit everyone else.

Your reasoning also applies to the what you consider "real" workers in the West, who themselves benefit from the exploitation of the global south. I've heard it before, the argument is that somehow the latter will rise up against the capitalist-imperialist system and bring about socialism. So that is who we all should be focusing on and that workers in the West are just the "labor aristocracy" i.e. useless in the struggle and might even be opposed to it.

That way, I'm sorry to say, will never lead to socialism. We, who live in the heart of the empire, are equally needed to bring about socialism. We, the workers in the west, must oppose our capitalists who oppress both us and the people in the global south. It is only by this combined effort of all workers all over the world, the imperial core and the global south, that socialism will emerge.

I'll go a step further. I think this entire argument is just lazy, defeatist ideology meant to create an excuse by Westerners to not do shit to bring socialism, and sit on their ass and hope that brown and black folk do the job for them.

I've had this discussion here in the past. People here, when you press them, admit they don't even believe socialism is possible in Amerika or the west. It will just be fascism and the only thing they can do is support themselves and their loved ones. It's just so fucking lazy and defeatist.