The idea that the government wants to protect people is false and makes no sense when you see how many homeless people there are and how few opportunities they have. Where was the government when they gambled away their life savings at the casino? Not allowing people to invest in startups is deprivation of opportunities. They don't want certain people to earn too much money. Everything feels so schematized and monopolized at this stage, it's obvious. Everything is planned in this economy from the day we are born; for elites, there is; elite school, elite university, elite startup incubator, seed round, Series A, Series B, ..., Corporate Exit, then become an angel investor or VC. It has all been planned out. The government doesn't allow anyone to go outside of their planned path.