We transitioned from a "high-trust society" (where software, Internet, etc, did not need to take into account so many security considerations, protect itself from enemies everywhere) into a "low-trust society" (encryption everywhere, hardware mitigations for Spectre-kind attacks, Javascript-based tracking, etc).
The overhead is similar to the one people face in third-world countries: you pay once for the government (taxes), then again for basic services (private education, private security, private health, private transportation), and you still end up in a worse situation than in a (high-trust) first-world country.
I tried using a Core 2 Duo laptop recently, but the simple fact that HTTPS is mandatory nowadays, and Core 2 doesn't have AES-NI, makes the laptop spin its fan much more than it should, even if I try to use an old Linux/Windows.
The overhead is similar to the one people face in third-world countries: you pay once for the government (taxes), then again for basic services (private education, private security, private health, private transportation), and you still end up in a worse situation than in a (high-trust) first-world country.
I tried using a Core 2 Duo laptop recently, but the simple fact that HTTPS is mandatory nowadays, and Core 2 doesn't have AES-NI, makes the laptop spin its fan much more than it should, even if I try to use an old Linux/Windows.