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Opponents see the same logic but from a different angle. They ask why infants should be exposed to risk at all. Why government money — taxpayer money — should be turned into chips on the casino table of the stock market. They argue that the idea doesn’t eliminate inequality; it just reshapes it. Children born during market highs get lucky. Children born during market lows suffer. The system, they say, could end up reinforcing the very imbalance it claims to fix.
