Portraying the working class "fighting back" through speculative options trading is a pretty ridiculous stretch. Virtue signaling at its best.
Ironically, the very platform that these patriots used to squeeze the shorts is, itself, part of the system:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjp...-funds-like-citadel-its-users-are-the-product
Finally, all private market funds (i.e., hedge funds, private equity, private credit, etc.) aren't the devil. Just like any industry, there are bad corporate actors for sure but the best of these firms (and those that attract institutional capital) are serving pools of capital that feed the poor, provide places of worship, cure the sick, educate the young, and provide income to retired workers (i.e., pension funds).
Just like anything, folks can paint with the uberbroad brush and label a group "bad". Its pretty lazy.