This makes it sound like it is a collection of individual failings that lead to market and growth remaining as the only normativities today.
It is the other way around; since religion and nation are left for dead after modernism, there is no glue layer that brings values together. People are not likely to be virtuous in isolation because in absence of coordinating factors, game theoretic advantage is on the one who cheats, at least in the short run. If there is no ambient sense of fair play, character doesn't pay the bills.
New generations are increasingly feeling being cheated out of a life preceding generations had had. There is only one button available to them and that is "more work, more growth, more hype".
The problem with the article's premise is in its framing; why does one feel that they need to be rich to feel secure to begin with? What anxiety locks us up on focusing on that goal? What buttons we could viably add back to the game?