My take on the GME situation:<br><br><br>*By system, I mean the rules and regulations (both government and otherwise) that govern stock trading.<br><br>Going into the situation, do I think the system* was straight up rigged against the little guy?  No.  I believe that the only reason why the wealthy hedge fund guys have been getting away with this sort of stuff is mostly because they've been better at hiding it for so long, whereas the guys at r/WallStreetBets aren't even trying to hide this, in fact it's quite the opposite, they're gleefully advertising what they're doing.<br><br>Think of it as somewhat analogous to a serial killer who kills his/her victims quietly in the dead of night versus a mass shooter who very brazenly goes around killing people in broad daylight.  Both absolutely shouldn't be happening in a perfect world, but latter definitely gets far more attention than the former because people can actually see it happening since it's far more in the open and people can actually see it happen; something people otherwise wouldn't be seeing.<br><br>Keep in mind I'm not making any moral equivalencies here.  The moral equivalency ratio of Serial Killers/Mass Shooters is clearly not the same as the one between average Joe market manipulation versus big time rich person market manipulation.  I'm just pointing out the matter of the visible versus the hidden, which I do think plays a big role here.<br><br>I'm very firmly in favor of what WallStreetBets is doing, though perhaps they overplayed their hand a bit.  Imagine if they had been able to stay under the radar for much longer?<br><br>Now, does this mean that I don't think there's corruption in the system?  Of course not!  The system definitely has corruption!  But a corrupt system doesn't necessarily equal a completely rigged system.<br><br>Now the situation going forward...  Well they're definitely trying their damnedest to rig the system to bring it back under their control, though it remains to be seen if they will succeed or fail.<br><br>I'm going to let the situation play out before making that judgement call.