I stand by my post, but I only recently heard about the ridiculous rules regarding selling homes to certain socio-economic groups (we all know what that means). There was a bank in Milwaukee or Connecticut in 2008 AFTER Lehman fell that was sent a letter FORCING it to give mortgages to shitty applicants because that was policy. (Edit: this bank was solvent and had acted conservatively in boom years) Yes that was retarded, but look at the year? Also, read Michael Lewis' books and tell me Wall Street was not to blame. FDR said this should never happen again and laws were passed to that effect yet were repealed resulting in what happened. No one person is to blame, something the OP is painfully ignorant of.
Michael Lewis writes interesting novels based upon reality, but I'd take them with a grain of salt. He's got to sell books to make money.
For example, the market is not "rigged" except in odd instances where a few people are found to be doing illegal things here and there.
The markets (like everything else in a free market) do have certain built-in advantages for those with lots of money and connections. But it doesn't mean you will lose all of your money (unless you're greedy or foolish) the way you usually will at the casino, and it doesn't mean that you can't get rich. You can - as long as you are patient, smart about things, and have realistic expectations.