u/Enough-Mountain1852

As someone who grew up in a culture and family who was fearful of stocks and was told you cannot create something from nothing, I have always been skeptical of stock market and did not invest like I should have. Graduating around 2008 crisis also colored my perception. Now I have a bunch of savings that are just sitting in cash but I am afraid to buy stocks because the market seems so risky. And yet every day the market just keeps going up and people who were not worried and just bought stocks keep getting richer and richer. Is the stock market an infinite money glitch ? Where does this new money come from ?