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@walm
What on earth makes you think this?
The vast majority of private pensions for those at "the top" (wherever that is) will be linked to equities, which are taking a battering during a recession/depression.
Even worse for the main object of everyone's ire: the bankers, as it happens.
Here are the stock price changes since mid-07:
Goldman -47%
UBS -76%
Morgan Stanley -75%
JPM -30%
Citigroup -94%
Bank of America -89%
Pretty much EVERY employee there will have had the vast majority of their savings in stock.
Trust me, they are going to have to work a LOT longer to get the pension they thought they were due four years ago.
Sure the "top" will be mega rich still since they always were and -75% of mega rich is still rich.
But it is just ignorant to think the "top" don't suffer too.