Because they watched a small group of people win a roulette straight bet when the ball landed on 32 and now think federal action is needed to allow everybody to bet straight 32 on everything.

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colesantiago 18 hours ago | parent [-]

There is no other way for that group of retail investors to build wealth other than go into these highly and extremely risky assets that you and I hate and do not recommend. (even more risky than secondary markets)

Sure, they can invest in public companies but if lots of these high growth companies stay private, the gains will not be shared towards retail especially for their pensions.

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tptacek 16 hours ago | parent [-]

This is obviously not true. Most wealthy people do not build their wealth by gambling on meme stocks and tech companies. That's an extraordinarily Twitter-blinkered thing to believe.

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colesantiago 9 hours ago | parent [-]

> This is obviously not true. Most wealthy people do not build their wealth by gambling on meme stocks and tech companies. That's an extraordinarily Twitter-blinkered thing to believe.

I never said wealthy, I said "retail investors", and most retail investors are not wealthy. Maybe you've been reading off Twitter and got that mixed up.

Your words not mine, but I'll just say the wealthy have more options than retail.

Shame, because I know some smart people who want to invest in the same companies as me and cannot and have to wait until it goes public for a that chance (if that ever comes)

Now with most growth companies staying private these people won't get a stake in the future and obviously you're fine with that.

I wonder if you would think it would be fine (if not great) if Google, Apple and other companies would just stay private in another universe.

	▲	tptacek 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You said "there is no other way for that group of retail investors to build wealth other than go into these highly and extremely risky assets". Obviously, no, that's not true.