Tech “Hobbies” Are Just Consumerism

Buying plastic things isn’t an artistic pursuit

Photo taken by the author. Don’t do this.

No one needs more than one pair of nice-sounding headphones. Yet that didn’t stop me from buying and selling dozens of them over the last six years and justifying it by flexing my writing skills reviewing them online. Nor does it prevent thousands of audiophiles from discussing their ins and outs every day across Reddit and…