I read it and then read this thread, and I’m still left feeling that I just got lectured to about something that’s pretty self-evident.
I admit that I am not familiar with the “nice guy” meme. But are there really a lot of people walking around who don’t think have to do anything to earn their worth?
I don’t know where that idea came from. The article has a simple message: if you want people to give you things - money, sex, love, friendship - you have to offer them something they value in return, and that often requires investing in yourself to make yourself valuable.
It’s a gross oversimplification, yes, but his point was that she invests time and effort every day to increase her value to other people:
The man-child who longs after her just thinks she’s attractive; he doesn’t realize (and Wong points out) that she spends at least an hour every day making her face pretty, and that she makes deliberate effort to watch her weight so her body looks good, too. His point is that one’s value to other people probably isn’t going to spring up unbidden from within; it will take some work. If the man-child wants the Zooey Deschanel lookalike to be attracted to him, he’s going to have to do some work to make himself valuable to her in some way.
I read that article a few days ago, and I think it’s on the ball.
For example, wrt to the man fantasising over the book store clerk - I’ve known people do this or something very similar, and bemoan that they can’t get her because she can’t see what a wonderful future boyfriend they’d be if only she’d look past his slobby exterior. Of course she can’t - is she a telepath? And would you have those fantasies if she also had such a slobbish exterior? Rule 34 notwithstanding, the answer would usually be no.
While in general I agree I am not certain that Bruce Wayne should really be somebody whose therapy advice you should seek.
I too thought the breathless, revelatory style of the article a trifle amusing - yeah, it isn’t like “the world doesn’t owe you a living” is news, exactly. 
who moisturizes for an hour a night, and who could finish their undergad organic chem and diff eq (well, maybe not diff eq) homework to get into med school to then become a board-cert surgeon if they moisturized every night? who ARE these impossible beings?
Some really good stuff in here:
Yes good stuff. But they forgot #6. Trying to tell this to anybody who doesn’t already realize it, is a waste of time.
I wish I had a nickel for every time my daughter had boyfriend issues or a problem at work and said “I’m a good person, why does this happen to me?” She is a good person, one of the best, but she’s also way too passive.
But I suppose I could apply the same rules to myself, with regard to how I react when she says this. What am I doing/have I done to make her think that being a good person is enough.
I found it more “well, duh” than anything else but YMMV.
Not a bad article. I just wish sometimes that Cracked writers didn’t constantly work out their life issues in the name of “humor.” There is one writer who seemingly can’t help but mention:
In damn near everything he writes.
I like it and agree with it.
I’ll still vote Democrat most of the time.
I’m dumber for having read that. I have a feeling that’s the author’s aim.
Rand Rover like this article too.
Take that as you will. 
I am now thinking that this article is like Gatorade: if you need it, it tastes good; if you don’t need it, it’s horrible.
I already fully realized the world owes you nothing. But it’s not enough to be a “nice guy”, you have to actively and constantly offer something special to keep a mate? Wow, that’s a depressing thought. It’s like a probation that never ends.
As someone who has been married a 13 years now, yup it’s constant work. The good news is that if you are in a healthy relationship, you are both working on keeping it that way.
I enjoyed it but I still believe you can be a successful go getter and still be compassionate, well compassionately kick asses I should say.
I suggest we merge the 2 threads about this article.
Done.