[WJW]

For all the complaining on HN about accredited investors, this is exacatly why they were invented in the first place: because there was too much speculative investment available to people who subsequently invested more than they could afford to lose. The big guys have the power to get a bailout but the small guys are the ones that starve to death because they can't.

[phkahler]

That's all backwards. The little guys are supposed to need the protection. The big guys are said to be smart enough to know what they're doing and not need protection.

[chii]

And yet, it's the small guys's tax dollars bailing out. But the small guys's hardly net any of the profits if the big guys scheme succeeds.