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by gojomo 4370 days ago
Given that there's been...

• …an immense explosion in available knowledge; and…

• …many new ways for non-accredited investors to invest and lose all their money in highly-leveraged public equities, real-estate, foreign-exchange, and other vehicles; and…

• …no appreciable complaints from existing accredited investors that they wish they'd been prevented from investing their own money in private equities;

...thus the SEC must be looking into reducing the thresholds, in the spirit of the JOBS Act, to let more Americans invest in innovative upstarts? Right? Right?