system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Stocks are down worldwide (apparently as bad as the 2008 financial crisis). What does this mean for your average Joe?
gpt
Unless your "average Joe" is investing actively... probably not much.

It's a bloodbath on the market today... but this has all the making off an overreaction/panic (the market has dropped 1500 points in 25 hours of trading.... and the world isn't currently being attacked by aliens) so things will likely stabilize out and recover in the coming weeks.