Free Northerner maps the life cycle of the Beta. Do you recognize yourself in it? http://freenortherner.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/the-life-of-a-beta/

Your average beta is born. He grow up surrounded by family. They are good times, but he barely remembers them. Then something changes; he spends 13 years being psychological castrated, mentally oppressed, (sometimes) physically abused, and viciously indoctrinated in what we term the public school system. He has no option but to go and is too inexperienced to realize what is being done to him. But, he is promised that if he does good , he will get a good job, have lots of money, marry a loving wife, and have kids of his own; he looks forward to that. While in this system he is thoroughly feminized; his natural masculine traits are banned, punished, and even drugged out of him.

The incentives to the beta are discussed in the followup post: http://freenortherner.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/demanding-more/

The problem the manosphere has is not, so much, about women preferring alpha men to beta men, it is that women and society lie about it. ... If women just came out and said that they were attracted to aloof, dominant, irresponsible, alpha bad boys, there would be no problem. (There would also be no problem if women found betas attractive like they said). ... It is not the preferences that are the problem, it is the lies surrounding the preferences that are the problem.

The young man today is put in 13 years of public school and university, where people are judged primarily by their ability to sit still and parrot what their teachers say. Where masculine behaviours, such as risk-taking, dominance, and rough-housing are discouraged, banned, and punished. The entire school system is geared towards teaching young boys subservience and dependence (beta traits) and to destroy their in-born initiative, risk-taking, and ambition (alpha traits). Right from the get go, authorities teach young boys that traditional masculine behaviours are punished, while weakness and beta traits (not always the same) are rewarded. In university, the incentive structure is much the same. Men are taught, while young, that the authorities will reward for being weak and punish for being strong.

Overall, the entire incentive structure of society is biased towards men being irresponsible. If a man is irresponsible, he gets to play video games now. He gets sex now. He gets to hang out with his friends now. If a man is responsible, there is no immediate gain. When there were long-term incentives, this was fine, but the long term incentives are breaking down. Why should men act responsibly, when the incentives are towards irresponsibility?

Edit: more words, added 2nd paragraph

Edit 2: extended quote from 1st link