Here is one traders confession if you will, of how traders made big money by shorting, especially in the 2008 market crash, while so many little guys investments crashed. You can also see how he admits to hurting people by shorting, but didn,t care. I recall shorters perhaps bragging about how much they made off SLI, at our expense. The truth is slowly coming out, which is a good thing, but as we can see in the article, people can change, almost a 180 degrees, at times, perhaps there is great hope for us in getting the full truth.

"But I was lying to myself. There were plenty of injustices out there — rampant poverty, swelling prison populations, a sexual-assault epidemic, an obesity crisis. Not only was I not helping to fix any problems in the world, but I was profiting from them. During the market crash in 2008, I’d made a ton of money by shorting the derivatives of risky companies. As the world crumbled, I profited. I’d seen the crash coming, but instead of trying to help the people it would hurt the most — people who didn’t have a million dollars in the bank — I’d made money off it. I don’t like who you’ve become, my girlfriend had said years earlier. She was right then, and she was still right. Only now, I didn’t like who I’d become either."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html?_r=0