Precisely. The fact something is yours is irrelevant. If it's your gun, i still want the state to make it illegal to shoot your kids with it.

Did you just morally equate investing in a failed startups with shooting kids?

Reductio ad absurdum seems to be the statists' argument of choice.

While all but the most radical libertarians will concede that some level of regulation is required, nearly every collectivist I talk to implies that permitting any level of individual human agency would turn the world into a Mad Max hellscape.

No, the commenter used an analogy to demonstrate similarity. No one drew an equivalence, moral or otherwise, between investing and murder.

Oh yeah, the war on drugs and minority encarceration that has resulted is totally the sort of successful government approach we want to emulate and apply to other sectors. (sarcasm)

I'm also curious about that. If you ever find the answer, please, come back to tell me.