> everything that touches upon finance vaguely feels like a scam
Citation needed. The fact that there are lots of scams or projects of dubious value doesn't prove that everything is. It's not really different than looking at tech startups, most are bad ideas that won't ever work but some do work.
I’m saying that the 2008 crisis led many people to believe that everything that counts as traditional finance is some kind of scam when you scratch the surface — real estate, stock market, etc.
If that’s the base assumption, it doesn’t matter if crypto projects do anything at all because they’re still no worse than the traditional investments (in this way of thinking).
