>>My wife and I are a couple of those people. We invested in ourselves. We'll get stuck footing the bill for the gamblers though.
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>Everyone has own choice. By the way, 'gamblers' (i.e. shareholders) are the only people who are not rescued, e.g. both AIG and Lehman shareholders are wiped out while companies employees and clients walk along with no visible harm. In other words, you may get stuck footing the bill, but your money go in different direction (I quite understand that this is not a big consolation).

Isn't that called redistribution?