[oblio]

No, they don't. You're an exception. Most people choose based on practicality or price. Free = even better.

I find that one of the few places where people act based on their values is raising children. And even there, a lot of people skip raising their children completely.

For everything else: convenience, price, maybe risk.

[erostrate]

And tech people tend to be much more willing to spend time&effort "optimizing" their choices to fit their values than the average population. At least for "small to medium" choices - not sure about raising children.

[simias]

Are we? I'm severely skeptical of this. Tech people tend to be financially secure so we can afford to pay more for stuff we care about, but I doubt we're significantly more opinionated and value-driven that the average population on average.

[yen223]

https://xkcd.com/610/

[erostrate]

I don't follow? I wasn't implying that this is a good thing, or that it makes tech people special, and certainly not that it makes them superior.

Edit: here's an xkcd more relevant to what I meant: https://xkcd.com/309/