RI. This is my first submission here so tell me I mess anything up.

Men should become aware of the many ways that the economy encourages us to NOT be leaders. When you encounter a problem, the economy doesn't want you to look inwardly to your creativity and resourcefulness. Instead, the economy wants you to look outwardly and ask, "What do I buy? Who do I pay?"

Ignoring the fact that business executives, owners, department heads, and a host of other positions of authority, many of which are in demand in the job market now, play a vital role in the functioning of any developed nation's economy, this oversimplifies demand and why it increases. Also, leaders and bosses are dependent on third parties/underlings all the time. Corporations hire outside lawyers from law firms to work their cases. Similarly, the president is very reliant on his advisers and department heads, if he tried micromanaging and doing everything at once he would fail miserably. Although people obviously want you to pay/hire them, the economy is not engaged in a vast conspiracy to get you to hire plumbers when you could fix the sink yourself.

Little do men know that the more we allow the economy to provide solutions in times of confusion and pain, the more dependent we become on the economy.

There's a lot to unpack here. Again, the economy is not some monolithic entity that provides goods and services just to deceive you and subsequently fuck you over in the long run. Also, during times and confusion and pain people "rely" less on the economy. I know it's basically impossible to rely less on the economy because it basically pervades every aspect of social life, but during a recession people generally spend less money to buy goods and services. See: The Great Depression. Lots of people learned how to make food for really cheap. As for the dependency issue, specialization is superior to jack of all trades. This is basically why free trade works. We are much more productive as a society because one person takes the job of doctor, another carpenter, another mayor. If we tried to do all those things for ourselves we would be terrible at it and nobody would want to hire us.

And the more dependent we are, the less attractive we are. One of the side of effects of too much dependency: simulated sterilization.

Really? Does a person get uglier when they finally qualify for social security? Is your woman gonna leave you because you hired a mechanic to fix your car? Finally, there's no logical reason for concluding that too much dependency=sterilization. Humans are a social species and our infants and children have the longest periods of dependence of any animal species. Furthermore, men are dependent on women for producing offspring and vice versa. Granted, this is an argument that dependency to some degree is beneficial, not that too much isn't bad, but in general as the world has become more globalized and nations have had rely on each other more and more for trade, wars and other violent political conflicts have decreased. Wars and other violent political conflicts lead to getting people killed or having their dicks or hoo-hahs blown off which is even worse than "simulated" sterilization.

Consider how NO ONE looks like a leader while on their phones. No one looks sexy, mature, or independent. Phones are playpens. And the more time you spend in the playpen, the more childlike you become. Children are never leaders.

nah