Correct - Robinhood's _marketing_ was "we'll democratize finance". Robinhood's _purpose_ was to sell order-flow information to the hedge funds. Retail investo

Correct - Robinhood's _marketing_ was "we'll democratize finance". Robinhood's _purpose_ was to sell order-flow information to the hedge funds. Retail investors were never the customer, always the product. This is like a mouse complaining about the "irony" of a mousetrap abandoning its mission of cheese-distribution.