Putting up a basic barrier to entry to people with low net-worth people causes some people to say "if the market is sky-rocketing, why can't I get in on that"..

Putting up a basic barrier to entry to people with low net-worth people causes some people to say "if the market is sky-rocketing, why can't I get in on that".. but the problem is whether or not you can "afford" to lose the money.. like if you have 50k to your name that you saved up over 20 years, then you blow it all in one bad investment, then you see people doing rash things like trying to take out their revenge on people or other super destructive behaviors. If your annual income is high, then losing 50% of your annual income might hurt, but you can earn it back in a reasonable amount of time.. losing say 10 years of annual income would hurt basically anybody.. So it makes more sense to have various lower risk investment vehicles that are attached to those markets -- like if real estate is booming in your part of the world, then it should be possible to create some kind of investment group where 100 people put together their money and buy various properties. Allowing people who don't know much about options to buy them in a leveraged position is incredibly risky for tons of reasons. Many people's understanding of options is basically like if the stock goes up, then the call option that is above the current stock price goes up -- the option price could easily could go down if the expectation was that it would go up even more than it did, or the price volatility decreases! Not easy to explain all of the horrible ways you can easily lose money in the markets... I've sometimes thought, maybe I should just do the opposite of everything I've thought I wanted to do.. maybe that'd be better than what I'm doing..