Somebody would! (Or rather, some thing.) There are a lot of smartcontract liquidity pools in Ethereum that facilitate trade between two tokens. The set an exchange rate by a formula that only looks at how much of each token is currently in the pool, not at prevailing market price[1].
So if and when it's apparent that Tether will be worthless, there will be a mad dash to dump it in those LPs in exchange for the other tokens, which was what happened to TerraUSD [2].
Here's a list of the LPs that have Tether as one token, just on Uniswap:
So if and when it's apparent that Tether will be worthless, there will be a mad dash to dump it in those LPs in exchange for the other tokens, which was what happened to TerraUSD [2].
Here's a list of the LPs that have Tether as one token, just on Uniswap:
https://info.uniswap.org/#/tokens/0xdac17f958d2ee523a2206206...
[1] This dynamic has the effect of writing a persistent ITM option with intrinsic value equal to LP's price divergence from the market exchange rate.
[2] Here's Curve's infamous 4pool, which has TerraUSD (UST) and three other non-defunct stablecoins -- it's 97% UST now: https://curve.fi/4pool