The kind of world you envision does everything it can to stymy the creation of such men who are dutiful, hardworking, and engaged in a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world. Those people aren’t allowed to exist, because their existence inevitably threatens the false equality your system oversees.
Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.