2. "zomg carbon footprint" - apparently renewables can't properly supply enough to power a tiny country size of Portugal or Netherlands? I thought we are going to power the Earth with renewables? Something seems rather inconsistent here. Of course this Malthusian cannot bring himself to utter the word "nuclear".
3. Mining pools are made up of many individual miners andm depending on the protocol, the lucky hashing units and not the pool, constructs the block, and as such would not be a trusted third party. Something he seems to be blissfully unaware of.
Even if the pool constructs the block - hashing units can be pivoted away from a malicious pool in seconds.
4. Banks get hacked and lose money on the regular, it's not unique to DeFi. Insurance for DeFi exists, just it banks purchase fidelity bonds.
5. Not a single mention of censorship resistance at all. This alone should disqualify this immediately, tbh.
Reads like something written by a privileged, out of touch person who has never had to face a day of actual hardship in his life, such as: confiscation of wealth, destruction of savings by inflation, personal bankruptcy due to sovereign default, or even outright denial of access to banking for the politically suppressed minorities.