I want to put some of my own money into a brokerage account and trade penny stocks to play with the market. I need some advice and help?

Don't bother. The people would only waste it.

So one person starts a firm, sells part to investors who are using their own money, and Wall Street is used as the market to arrange this. How does any of this money belong to the 'people' who have risked nothing and done nothing?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.