Paywalled for me, but the concept seems ridiculous. If anything we have a much bigger problem in that peopl keep looking to someone else to protect them from life.
The opposite of self-reliance is dependency. Do we really want to have nations full of people dependent on others? I know that’s the socialist goal, but it doesn’t work out too well in practice.
Self reliance is anti-fragile, and that’s a good thing. Of course it can be overdone - we are social creatures and our economic well-being relies on cooperation. But we should be as self-reliant as we can possibly be while still taking part in economic and social public life.
People who depend on government eventually discover that government isn’t very dependable.