I'll preface that I really did enjoy Dune, because what I'm going to say about the book will come off as negative.
The first third of the book reads like an encyclopedia article with a slow moving plot tacked onto the side, and since most of the information and the intrigue is laid out so plainly, the reader is left in a state of passive consumption. The last two thirds are entirely okay. The narrative is interesting in the abstract, but it won't keep you on the edge of your seat when you're reading it. This is where most people break off.
Dune is difficult not because the text is complex or challenging, but because it's a slog. Like reading a history textbook conveyed through character's internal monologues, and passable pros. It's an exceptional piece of world-building, and a SciFi landmark. But it doesn't challenge you to guess what's next, and tension in the book is diffused by the book's tone.
When someone goes to read Dune, I'm rarely surprised to find that they've either given up, or realized in retrospect that they would have been better served spending an evening perusing the series' wiki.
There are a lot of spaces online, especially on Discord and at one point in Facebook groups where Reddit is regarded as if it were a digital North Korea.
Is there actually a way to target the financial system? Seems to me the best anybody could have hoped for was to make a hedgefund bleed.
So far as I can tell, there's no political way to meaningfully touch that segment of society. Politicians can't be trusted to regulate such a complex system, even if they could be trusted not to be bribed into compliance. The existing regulatory institutions seem captured. Even poking at the hive with $gme seemed to cause institution involved to close ranks, and try to delegitimize retail traders, even discounting all brokerage's decision to limit trading on the stocks.
A lot of people want their pound of flesh for '08, especially young folk who's families lost everything.