The Founding Fathers tied voting rights to property ownership. Their (correct) reasoning was that only property owners have skin in the long game. Brazilian stocks plunged nearly 25% after an election, the market has made it very clear that it thinks. Yet non-owners barely feel the pain even if everyone pays eventually for the cost of socialism. The solution, however, isn’t fewer voters, but more capital owners. A healthier democracy requires widespread capital ownership, not just income redistribution. Universal stock grants held in trust until age 25–30, with earlier access for education, would give everyone a stake in the country’s future. There’s an obvious irony in using redistribution to defend capitalism. The goal isn’t to socialize ownership but rather to decentralize it. A society dependent on the state is different than a democracy of individual owners with a stake in its future.