The whole “I’m a rugged individual” cliche would be hilarious at the owner’s expense… if they hadn’t propagandized the US, and increasingly the rest of western culture, to somehow unironically glorify the bullshit.

Personally I prefer the idea of living in a society and contributing to an aspect of it while depending on others for other things. I consider our-hyper-individualistic culture where we blame people who are hurting for that sweet dopamine hit of schadenfreude, and praise people who lie that their success wasn’t a function of their society’s infrastructure and socioeconomic birth lottery including access to receptive contacts with capital is the height of toxicity that hurts all but the small class of “winners” that considers avarice to be an aspirational character trait.

Plus you know, that whole “I’m a self-sufficient go getter” crap breaks down instantly when you realize almost none of them would be able to function without their legions of personal assistants doing everything short of wiping their asses for them