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First, the stock market only represents publicly traded companies. Privately held companies aren't on stock exchanges. If you own stock in privately held companies there are usually very strict rules about how and when, and to whom you can sell. Its not a quick thing.
The non-rich selling all their stock would likely help the rich. Here's why: The rich use brokerages that monitor the stock market in realtime and can trade faster. As soon as a sell off would begin, the brokerages would get in and sell most of what they had first, meaning the non-rich would get a fraction of the value of the stocks they are selling. As soon as the selling of the non-rich ended, the rich would come back into the market and buy up the same assets they had before (and more) for a fraction of the price.
Wouldn't this require that we're all selling off at the same time?
Yes, which is another impossibility. However I was giving OP the benefit of the doubt.