Everyone Wants Yield, No One Wants Work

 
Let’s get one thing straight:

Crypto didn’t promise you easy money.
It promised you permissionless struggle.

But somewhere between staking guides, yield farms, and TikTok tutorials, people got the idea that DeFi was a magical vending machine.
Push button. Get coin. Sleep rich.

Spoiler: The vending machine is on fire, and half the buttons are linked to rug pulls.

I’ve seen it a hundred times:

• Some slick protocol offers 500% APR

• Degens flood in like rats at a corn buffet

• Protocol implodes under its own Ponzinomics

• Forum threads full of “How could this happen?”

Here’s how:
Nobody read the contract.
Nobody learned the math.
Nobody figured out where the yield was actually coming from.

They just clicked.
And hoped.

Because everyone wants the yield.
But no one wants to do the dirty work:

• Learning how to LP and hedge

• Understanding protocol risk

• Moving funds through 5 bridges and praying they still exist in an hour

• Watching charts like a goblin with insomnia

But that is the real game.
The yield isn’t just the reward—it’s the trophy for surviving a digital hellscape with your keys intact.

So don’t whine when your 500% turns into -100%.
If you didn’t read the whitepaper, you didn’t invest—you gambled.

You want yield?
Get to work.
Get weird.
Get educated.
And maybe—just maybe—you won’t get wrecked.

Stay skeptical, stay sweaty,
A.B. Gobling