Comments like this are usually made by people that have not participated in the stock markets returns over the years. I apologize if I'm wrong.
I've been participating in markets conservatively for about 30 years. My bond holdings have actually outperformed my stock holdings for most of that time. Since the GFC, I have been witnessing an alarming trend of central bank and government intervention in the markets, keeping stocks from correcting to any large degree. Anyone investing in the "market" for the past decade thinks they're brilliant. Why wouldn't they?
Had interest rates been allowed to find their natural levels, bonds would be much more enticing as investments than they currently are. Had the Fed and the government not bailed out everyone and everything this past year, we'd be looking at depression level losses in the stock market. America can't afford higher interest rates or regular functioning (and self-correcting) markets.
It is my belief that our markets have been fueled by corporate stock buybacks, deficit-fueled tax cuts, government/CB manipulation of interest rates and buying of corporate debt, junk bonds, treasury debt, leveraged speculation ("don't fight the fed"), and free money handouts to just about everyone. This is not the way free markets are supposed to work. It unfairly backstops excessive risk taking by removing the "risks" investors are supposed to be subjecting themselves to in order to get their just "rewards". It penalizes savers and those on fixed incomes by devaluing their dollars and paying them nothing for their less speculative investments.
None of this is ethical, or conducive to facilitating real price discovery. The bastardized and manipulated centrally planned system we have now is not what regular functioning free markets in a healthy economy should be. Frankly, it's disgusting. Printing and borrowing our way to perceived prosperity is not consequence free. No one knows how long this could go on. We're all going to pay the price one of these days for this profligacy.
So yes, I'm mostly out of the markets right now. I don't believe in their current value (PE ratios over 40) or their artificial nature. Organic corporate earnings have not been improving. I don't buy the hype, I don't believe all of the financial propaganda, and I don't trust the system. Strikes me as entirely corrupt. I'm willing to be "less rich" due to my position. In my opinion, unbridled greed is the root cause of most of the world's problems. It's just not my thing.