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by Oblouk 2236 days ago
Crowdfunding should be loosened. Sure some people will get scammed but it is the same people who the government allows to sink their weekly paycheck into scratchers. These regulations are only in place to give PE a monopoly on certain investments.
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The critical difference being that government makes a lot of money off gambling taxes; it may be a negative-sum game, but it's their negative-sum game.
Fair point