Where did the wealth go?

[zipplewrath]

11. To some extent

Despite what people are saying here, it went to those who "sold short". They gained money because other people lost it. That's not all of it in any sense and as people are saying, in some sense it is "value" of something that was only realized if you sold it at the time that the value was at that level. But in the end the entire system from top to bottom is predicated on "winners and losers".