Cute. Except the ones suffering the most from the HFT machinations were most likely pension and mutual funds, the ones most folks parents rely on. Not rich fucks or their catered hedge funds.
If you have your retirement fund parked in an actively-managed fund where you pay an annual fee to have someone who makes $500,000/yr base continuously push "buy" and "sell" buttons on their computer screen all day, you have bigger problems than HFT.
Going for more than market growth is a strategy only brokers, fund managers and banks make profit of.