What gets lost here is that viewing the world in terms of material sufficientcy and comfort is essentially feminine; and viewing the world in terms of agency is essentially masculine.

Today, most people have virtually unlimited comfort and provision; and almost no agency. 

Meditate on Jack Doresy losing control of the platform he built to his own managerial beurocracy and to the US security state. There was no way out, so he retreated into naval-gazing Eastern spiritualism. If there is no agency for Jack Dorsey, what hope is there for the agerage man?