Well, there's two kinds of people - those that are happy with what they earn (saving under a mattress or (maybe) in a bank), and those that want to have more unearned profits and invest their savings / pensions in the stock markets (or other businesses).
You mainly hear about the latter kind, and finance is in particular an industry that's targeting them. When people want something (profit) out of nothing (little to no work carefully picking investments, instead just give your money to someone else), there's a lot of people willing to sell them "something" that's really "nothing".
You mainly hear about the latter kind, and finance is in particular an industry that's targeting them. When people want something (profit) out of nothing (little to no work carefully picking investments, instead just give your money to someone else), there's a lot of people willing to sell them "something" that's really "nothing".