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When people sell their stocks, that value doesn't vanish - it turns into cash.
So another way to look at is "rich people now have $1 trillion more in cash now than they did yesterday".
And that cash will turn back in shares at the next opportunity...
It's like a spring that gets pushed down and then released again later. All the energy used to push it down doesn't go away, it is stored in the spring.