It seems to me that the terms alpha and beta, while very real and useful, apply only to the animal kingdom. The male does not get to decide if he is alpha or beta. That is a decision made by the female collective. They decide who the alphas are.

That being said, MGTOW to me is a transcendent philosophy. It doesn't magically bestow alpha status on us. It in fact totally frees us from that paradigm. Granted, red pill knowledge will make it more probably that females perceive us as alpha, but in the end, what MGTOW even cares what they think?

Let the female endlessly pursue her lust for the material world. They are in fact pools of want with infinite depth. No amount of material success seems to sate them.

The sad truth is, most MGTOW were beta simps who got ground up in this gynocentric world. It hurt enough to wake us up. Rather than try to be that alpha you always wanted to be, it is better to simply float away from all of that nonsense. Betas are the true builders of society. Women and dark triad men spend their existence living of of the excess production of these productive men.

To me, MGTOW is about the average beta waking up to the fact that he can keep his excess production for himself. He is a man who is shaking off the parasites, both male and female. We watch as they scream in pain as they are loosing their source of food. We can dispassionately not give a damn as we have realized our own true worth. Let them label us how the will. We are no longer their willing slaves.