Depends wheter you want to be loved, to have real affection or not.
It's mostly related to ego because even if a women can fake affection, the fact that you know she will still judge you inferior because of how you looks will fuck the positive hormones produced by her affection with the negative hormones produced by your ego, meaning you have done all that careermaxxing for nothing if it was only about women
It's not about validation because you can easily psychologically "convert" the validation of getting women because of your personality (which is what Chad thinks, but it's looks in reality) in the validation of getting women because you were good enough to produce millions and having ressources, being more dominant than other men etc.
You can have validation like this, and can have affection with friends, parents and pets. The real problem is your ego wanting to be loved as a genuinely attractive member of the society, you don't want normal affection but to be really loved. In fact, you want what others want and can't accept it's unrealistic because this kind of maximal affection is linked to sexuality itself linked to your looks, and in this case you have nothing to offer in exchange.
You need to think more yourself like a warlord than like an actor, a model, a star etc. Taking testosterone can helps you getting in that psyche, especially with the fact that you will be more interested in sex
Think about your relationship between you and your parents, especially your father to understand what I'm talking about : you liked them because they took care of you and they liked you because you did what they wanted you to do, yet it's not like sexual affection you seek. But it's how you need to view relationships with women when you're rich.
So, if you become rich and can work on your ego to accept your place of provider instead of having unrealistic exceptations, you won, the problem is how you become rich lmao
And it's obviously useless to work on your ego if you're an incel, you need to do it only when you are rich, when you are still an incel it's better to just hate women