Or it's something people enjoy as a thought experiment? I work adjacent to computer security industries and have always found the sort of cat-and-mouse of circu

Or it's something people enjoy as a thought experiment? I work adjacent to computer security industries and have always found the sort of cat-and-mouse of circumventing various detection and security mechanisms to be engaging and interesting. There's certainly people who are doing it out of anxiety, either intentionally or because of their own history or mental issues. For them, it may not be easy or possible to just decide to live another way. Either there actually is something they need to be adversarial towards or they're well aware that it's not necessarily rational, but it's not any easier for them to stop than it is for a depressed person to "just be happy".