So rich people never deserve sympathy? It's got to hurt when people close to you, whom you see as peers, make off like bandits whilst you're left relatively a lot worse off.

"Life's not fair", bellum omnium. But the reason to talk about fairness is that it's something to strive for and insofar as we can make things fairer (like through SEC regulation) we should.

Nobody's saying the losers here are catastrophically equivalent to a war zone. But worthy of sympathy? Sure. Just because you're rich doesn't mean things can't suck for you, subjectively.