It’s easy not to have sympathy because these folks are the ones railing against the banks and the government and the establishment and police - confident they don’t need them because they’re all in on a system the vast majority doesn’t understand the first thing about. But they’ll demean and criticize anyone who suggests their magic free money machine might not be all it’s cracked up to be. They’ve been warned so many times. Like the anti-vaxxers turning to ivermectin. It’s honestly just an episode of r/WinStupidPrizes.
Even now they’re rationalizing - US banks offer 0% interest and took $12B in overdraft! See how much worse that is? Well except the $12B is out of $18T in assets so DeFi hacks cost 1400X as much per user.
In fact 10% of all TVL in DeFi was stolen this year. That means if you’re not making a 7% return for inflation and a 10% return for risk loss, you’re losing money in real risk adjusted dollar terms invested in DeFi. 17% APR in DeFi is equal to 0% in real dollar terms.