I believe that Ethereum should pay for that mistake, because they gathered hundreds of millions from the masses and now they want people to solve their problem.
Could you describe the mistake you're talking about? What, exactly, did Etherium do wrong? Create a hammer that doesn't prevent you from smashing your thumb?
You might have a case with suck.it (or whatever, the The[lol]DAO creator), but how does Etherium play into this?
BTW, how can you possibly not think this is frikin' hilarious?
I believe that there are a lot of "ordinary" people from the masses, which bought ETH and DAO at a higher prices. These people deserve our sympathy, because its bad in general to laugh on the other's misfortune....
If these "masses" were trying to save kittens and feed stray puppies, you'd have somewhat of a point. In reality, these were ignorant opportunists, blinded by unchecked greed, who, in hopes of making an easy buck, "invested" in shit they didn't understand & got pwnt.
This is *exactly* how the free market works, exactly how the invisible hand punishes stupid people for doing stupid shit.
Stupid actions have bad consequences, that's how stupid people learn to not do stupid shit. Take away the punishment, and you break the feedback loop of aversion formation, Nature's own Pavlovian conditioning.