I know a guy who wants to buy everything new just because it's new. He has top-notch motherboards, videocards, monitors just for the sake of it. He wants to have a 100GBit network at home, not knowing what to do with it, he doesn't run any home servers or Monero/Tor nodes or something. He wants it just because he can afford it. Peak consumerism.
Meanwhile, I reduce every video quality to 720p because most of my screens aren't larger than 1366x768. And even on the one with 1920x1080 (which is already huge by my standards), I still view in 720p at most because it spends less processing power and overall energy.
And yes, there's an old saying: "if people really knew sh, ed, sed, grep and awk, millions of software products would never need to be created".
I'd add bc/dc to that list, but whatever.