If you could go from $200/week salary + $200/week welfare to $300/week salary + $120/week welfare, it would be in your interest to do so, as the total is more in the second scenario.

Your critique of Brave doesn't square with my understanding of the Brave ecosystem since I started seriously following it just before the BAT ICO.

This technical interview with Eich was extremely illuminating and I'd urge you to watch it, particularly the second half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtHhYes6-A

The current ad-tech ecosystem is a complete disaster, and Eich's vision for replacing it is, I think, genius.

Leverage properties of cryptography to build a browsing experience which respects privacy but retains opt-in ad relevance and anonymous metrics, and further leverage developments in cryptoeconomics to balance the requirements of user <-> publisher <-> advertiser in a properly-designed content generation and consumption ecosystem.

I find the whole idea elegant, ambitious and pragmatic.

What specifically do you find anti-user about Brave?