I can't answer for him, but I try to point out in my answer to him above, that it's not short term pain that is the issue at all. It's a matter of principle, actually. Rather than focusing on a result, the journey is the result you focus on, and you choose the journey. You enjoy TA and all the challenges degen defi presents to you, and that's what you spend your time on, at least what I see of your daily schedule. That infuses your days with enjoyment, not suffering, and it is more valuable to enjoy your life than to have a particular kind of asset or result that has made you suffer and lament your days spent attaining it.
When you are at the end of your life and looking back, it won't be the assets you have acquired that matter to you, but the life you have lived. I get tired packing materials up ladders, smack my thumbs and bleed. I do suffer short term pain for long term gain, but it's the context that I do it in that matters, that enables me to overcome the pain with being happy I am achieving a solution for the homeowner to enable them to enjoy the home they have striven so hard to get. There's no point in suffering the pain if the gain doesn't outweigh that pain at the time. That comes from enjoying the work you're doing that causes the pain, and that's the real reward at the end of the day.
Well it's also a matter of people outsourcing the pain to other entities and then personally profiting with no pain/risk to themselves. And then they'll make some false claim like "we're all in this together".
This is a real pain we suffer. It isn't a new thing. Looking at human history reveals innumerable times such profiteers eventually received just rewards for the harm they inflicted. Eventually their means justify their ends. This is not to say that not doing that prevents suffering and people that limit their ends by their choice of principled means float off into the sunset on happy clouds of contentment. All of us die of something that overwhelms our contentment, after all. But my experience of seeking to undertake principled acts avails me of qualitatively better appreciation of what I have, and my recollection of unprincipled acts is that I lose self respect, contentment, peace of mind, and resort to conceit instead of honest confidence and self esteem I believe I merit.
I know you act on principle because you have done so when you didn't just take valuables from others that could not protect them. Instead you protected them yourself. You demonstrate the means by which you attain your ends must be just by your reckoning, and that your self respect is more valuable to you than mere tokens. Others do falsely claim principles, but you live by them.