Lewis details a world in which the market has become a class system – a playground for those with the vast resources needed to access it, completely invisible to those who do not: The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that a nanosecond had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all. What had once been the world’s most public, most democratic, financial market had become, in spirit, something more like a private viewing of a stolen work of art.15
