For me, it's stopped being cool for a few reasons. Environment. I know most people don't care about the environment on HN, but the toll of consumerism, includi

For me, it's stopped being cool for a few reasons. Environment. I know most people don't care about the environment on HN, but the toll of consumerism, including tech gadgets, is huge on the environment. I restrain from buying new devices for that reasons. Profit. It has always been about profit, but never to that extent. It's all about selling new stuff that we don't need, getting our attention, making us addicted. And it's the same on the workplace. I used to work on weekends because I loved what I was doing. Now it's all about trying to pass the next performance evaluation.