[Ghjklov]

They never cover the success stories of small time traders who have been enabled by Robinhood and such brokerages who require no minimums and no commission fees.

To me, this just sounds like gatekeeping as usual. The boomer investors don't like the young blood coming in and ruining their game, and realizing how much money can be made by essentially shuffling money around on the stock market while doing nothing concretely valuable to society.