I agree that the generational attacks are pretty pointless. But, I think articles like this do identify a real social phenomenon: For some large percentage of p

I agree that the generational attacks are pretty pointless. But, I think articles like this do identify a real social phenomenon: For some large percentage of people in developed countries (maybe even a majority), at some point in the past 30 years the slope of the "progress" curve turned definitively downward. This is true on an income basis (real wages for most people are stagnant or even declining), but it's also true on a quality of life basis (metrics the author mentions include sex and the deleterious effects of the attention economy). The downward turn probably started sometime around the year 2000, according to indicators I've seen. That does mean that people identified as "Generation X" are a sort of pivot generation between the optimism and growth of the past and today's stagnation. In that sense, the article is talking about something real.