If someone held your family at gun point and demanded x amount of bitcoin, you hand it out. Wouldn't you like to know the names of those people when they go to cash out ๐Ÿ˜….

KYC is not helping the little guys. It's asset protection for the big guy.

I still don't like kyc tho๐Ÿ˜†

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It's about surveillance. When it comes to capital controls/sanctions and some form of financial repression (e.g. yield curve control for govt. Bonds) they need to know where the money is, who owns it.