The Matrix is about a world that is a computer simulation. The stock market, as of this writing, has been created to a certain extent by low interest rates and QE. These conditions have been created by the US Federal Reserve "creating" money via a computer program. So the "value" of the market is a function of the value of the dollar, interests rates and of course the actual condition of the US economy. But all these factors are incorporated into a model, a computer program. Sometimes the models is a good proxy for the actual economy and sometimes it is not. Time will tell. Sometimes reality is just more model that reality.