Not mocking. Just sardonically lamenting.<p>Much of that cargo culting is driven by idiotic investors who want to be able to pop into the office and gawk at a veritable army of hoodie-clad brogrammers who look like they came from someone shaking a VHS copy of <i>Hackers</i> a little too hard. As sad as it is, founders and start-up executives often choose these knowingly-dysfunctional offices because it&#x27;s the most rational choice they can make under the constraints that dummy investors are placing on them. If they go to the investor and say, &quot;boy, for 4x the rent and a buildout cost of $500k, we could really get the product teams humming at a fast pace&quot; they&#x27;ll just be told to hold onto some ass pennies [0]. But if they say they&#x27;re going to turn the entire office into one large lazy river waterpark ride, where developers get their own inner tube and a waterproof laptop and everyone wears GoPros all day which will live stream their entire workday to their new spinoff business Constagram ... well now the investor is listening.<p>But I agree that in a huge number of cases, it&#x27;s just cargo culting for status. It&#x27;s probably even damaging their ability to recruit workers, but the cargo cult status matters more.<p>[0] &lt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DO1Q7F23DxM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DO1Q7F23DxM</a> &gt;