I think there's a misunderstanding here. Some readers have taken me to be siding with realists against nice guys. But most of my writings defend nice guy-idealists and the counterculture. (I could easily cite dozens of them.) In this particular article, though, I'm trying to explain why nice guys would finish last (because the downside of their artistic idealism is their incompetence in certain real-world affairs).

That's a great point, though, about the need for a late-modern community for "nice guys." There's talk of a crisis of masculinity, and Joe Rogan-style "populist" alpha males take up most of the oxygen. That's because even not nice guys are in trouble, as their jobs are being automated by machines. Now's precisely the time, then, for visionary, idealistic, "nice" (sensitive, creative) men and women to contemplate how we should rethink the meaning of life, to suit the ecological, economic, political, and technological changes we're undergoing.