For the love of God, please craft hobbies and an appreciation for life beyond abstract "utility" maximization. These freaks are so hyperalienated from their own existence that they can't conceive of themselves as anything other than an input. Sorry nerds, you won't find self-actualization by designing a marginally more addictive ad-software or another tulip bubble. Please stop eating the bugs and look at some art for a fucking change.
The only people that advocate for this lifestyle are people with no friends, no families, and no ambitions for either. The odd part is that they have very little consciousness of just how differently they live to normal people. It's a huge chunk of why they're so fundamentally out of touch with the average person.
I know some people I used to go to college with that started joining "pods" or "colonies" or other buzzwords that blend together as soon as they got their cerifications. To this day, as far as I know, they're still "preparing" for the lives ahead of them, while being in their late 30s and early 40s. No actual steps taken into having non-work friends or relationships, just a "any moment now everything will pay off and they will be gods among men" confidence.
What's actually around doesn't matter. The next tech hype thing will surely be superior to it and surpass it. It's endless preparing while running in place and it's sad to watch happen to another person.
An odd contradiction is that they advocate this lifestyle while also advocating technology like VR, which is completely incompatible with people living in this kind of space.
It goes to show just how little their consciousness is of the living space and daily life compared to the technology they advocate.
I've argued about that exact contradiction with one of the exact people I mentioned before.
His answer was NeuraLink(tm)(r). Just like in the Cyberpunkerinos.
I will become techbro-only Saw in my old age if this is the future they build.
They just wanna pack themselves into Matrix so badly.
the problem with this type of sacrifice is at a certain point they become even more invested because they need it to be worth everything they've already lost out on
A whole lot of the "California Ideology" is exactly that: more techbro shit must be subsidized because all the previous techbro shit had to be worth it.