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 😅.

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

I still don't like kyc tho😆 

 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.