Please change my mind, about a possible stock market side hustle

If been racking my brain around how I can make money online, this week. I've so far explored online surveys (earned 7€, in about 20 hours work), explored selling second hand stuff (looks fun, might be getting into that), explored stock photography (earned 0€, in about 12 hours) and earlier today I downloaded a stock market simulator, which might become my new project, next week. The thing is, I'm a little conflicted about using the stock market. I have some savings, so I could use about 5% of those, to start trading (I'm thinking it's best to start very slow), so money isn't actually the issue here. But I use to be a wagie and I remember every new year, we had to obligatory go to the new years speech, the boss was giving. Year after year, we got fed the same story: "Dear working people, you need to work harder, because we need our stocks to go up". In the end, when one of the factories I use to work for, started closing, they even used the stock market, as an excuse to fire employees, who weren't productive enough. I swore then and there, that I would never buy stocks, because that system exploited the working class ! But trough the years, I saw society change and maybe the working class doesn't deserve, that kind of protection from me. Because they all are a bunch of sheep, following the hurd. I've always considered myself a black sheep and maybe I should stop acting, like I want to be a sheppard.