Compare yourself to your parents, given that. You have the internet. If it's killed work for "the creatives," it's given the rest of us free access to their works. You have a cell phone, where your dad might've broken down on a highway north of Phoenix and prayed for a pay phone. If your kid runs a fever and the treatment wipes out your meager savings, at least he'll live, where his uncle might've died under the same circumstances.
I'm blessed with a good job. Maybe my luck clouds my vision, and there's a huge structural problem I refuse to recognize. Maybe it'd be different if I had a wife and kids, but I can't help but think that's... optional, especially for those of us in our 20s.
So maybe I just don't understand the plight of the author or those like him, but I can't help thinking that the primary drive behind the complaints is jealousy. The HuffPo article tries to say it nicely, and explain it with unfairly inflated expectations, but it still comes down to the same thing. Young people are jealous because other people have status, and it's just not fair.