The token sale phenomenon briefly reversed this, but that was shut down:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11408-020-00366-0
>The average ICO has almost 4700 contributors. The median contributor invests a relatively small amount. The ICO market appears to have successfully given access to the financing of innovation to a new class of investors, which is a long-standing public policy issue
Even public capital markets are becoming increasingly displaced by private equity where only institutional and accredited (wealthy) investors have access as investor:
https://www.citizensbank.com/corporate-finance/insights/priv...
This is because the cost of getting SEC approval for offering stock to the public is steadily increasing.