My bigger problem with this is this cultural mindset of 'value'. Everything has become financial. If you're not quantified in terms of value, you're not doing life right, apparently.

A 'high value man' spoken like that paints life like that's the ultimate goal. Feminists have picked up on this, and now women believe the same thing should be expected of them.

To become high value, you have to compromise a lot of your humanity. You have to constantly be focused, constantly be engaged doing side hustles, hitting the gym, using every minute to maximize your 'profitability' as a human like you're constantly fighting to reach the top of some heirarchy.

Women no longer want kids because they've been taught that seeking ambition and success through borderline psychopathic methods (80-hour weeks, ruthless attitude etc), is their only option to 'compete' with men, and should not be 'defeated' by these 'competitors'.

It's maddening. We no longer look inwards and consider what actually makes us happy as individuals, instead seeking profit at all turns.

Then when a woman is in her 40's, a successful and ruthless lawyer with a huge cash sum saved up in her penthouse, she'll look down at her 50 year old brandy alone on her sofa and think 'what now?'.

How very empowering.

In contrast, men are driven to these levels of sociopathic entrepreneurship specifically with the goal of winning a good woman and supporting their kids, not competing against them like an enemy. In their 40's they'll be greatly fulfilled