I'm not buying it.
Blaming the younger generation for being more selfish and less well prepared for adulthood than previous generations is the easy pickings of cultural commentary, and has been since at least the ancient Greeks.
He reaches for two cultural tropes that are close to hand: "Over-supervised helicopter-parented robots!" and "Self-entitled boomer values!" But he cites no polls or other data that would show that there is actually a change from previous generations on either of these dimensions.
Young adults today know that they're facing some awful circumstances, and are probably less naively idealistic about their opportunities than the last several generations of Americans.
