It&#x27;s not quite that simple.  The law of gravity will not be permitted to apply to you if doing so will cause too much damage to too many people.<p>But several times the &quot;bailout&quot; kept the institution alive, but wiped out the shareholders.  I thought that was at least somewhat reasonable.  Wipe out the senior management too (which I don&#x27;t recall whether that was done), and that might be about as good as can be achieved.