The stock market is soaring, despite millions being out of work in the US. The US has two different economies, and I'm all for anything that gives the latter group the same tools the former group has.
Why should only rich people who know how to navigate beige clunky 1990s websites, or whose parents give them the number to their investment guy, be the only ones who get to trade?
And the frustrating part of this article is that they aren't saying trading is inherently risky, but rather that a certain group shouldn't be allowed to? It's a cliche that stock traders were jumping out of windows in 1929, but nobody said "we should shut down the stock market".
Everything can be overdone... gambling, sugar, video games. Why focus on the few people who take it too far, rather than the millions who now have the same access to wealth building that rich old people do?