Leisure and Self-Sufficiency

A life of Leisure is not necessarily one of independence.  For, someone who is wealthy enough to no longer need to work usually still must rely on others for goods and services, e. g. a grocer and a car mechanic.  In other words, Leisure is not equivalent to Self-Sufficiency.  But, if there is a conatus that inheres in the concept of Individuality, it is that of Self-Sufficiency.  Thus, the dogmatism of Smith's groundless representation of Egoism as Profit-seeking, rather than, say, the more traditional Survival-seeking, suppresses a more systematically coherent further alternative.  In other words, Individualism and Capitalism are not as synonymous as they are usually taken to be in the U. S.