And if you love the simplicity and lack of informed investment Robinhood represents, you'll love slot machines too. Put money in, pull lever, boom.
If you don't know enough to stock pick, buy the index.
If you don't know enough to stock pick, buy the index.
While I am in general agreement with your position, I see statements like this frequently when stock trading comes up. References to the market or the index. There isn't one, monolithic tradable "market". Rather there are dozens of different index views of the broader market, some of which are better than others. If you know so little about stock trading that you think a service like Robinhood is a good idea you probably don't know enough to choose a good index either.
Fun fact: brokerage accounts were easier to open in 2005 before the recent more stringent money laundering regulation.