Yeah, except the people holding Tether bags are guranteed 0% yield.
People want them for the same reason people in the US want houses.
If you compare real estate to gold for 30 years, real estate loses value. If you compare real eatate to dollars, real eatate goes up.
USDT looks like real estate when compared to international fiat currency.
It looks like NVIDIA charts compared to the worst fiat currencies.