On the other hand, if all of the paid in capital represented your personal money, how long would you have continued to provide capital for a continued operstion?

You may have decided after a couple of million not to continue.

In that case, the company would have been disolved and the loss vs gain situation we are all in would not exist.

If I could start all over again, knowing what the present situation would be, I would choose not to invest a penny.

The odds are not in our favor to make a profit vs investing the same amount over those past years depending on which stocks you may have chosen.