There are lots of people who play blackjack in casinos who don't know the odds, or who at least fool themselves into thinking that the odds are in their favor.

There are lots of people who play blackjack in casinos who don't know the odds, or who at least fool themselves into thinking that the odds are in their favor. It's harder to estimate with startup investing in the case where you do your homework on both, but I think that if startup investing is heavily advertised as being a complete crapshoot with potentially huge returns, but most likely a complete loss, then people should be allowed to experiment with it. The proposed rules have spending limits to enforce that it's just dipping in, and not people dumping their life savings into things.