What is tough about this problem is how hard it is to communicate. We all know something is wrong, even if we don't really realize it. Like the article says, we've been promised all of these incredible things by the advancements we've seen, but we have gotten very few fundamental improvements. I live in the US, so I'm going to speak from that point of view.
We work more than every, are poorer than any time in recent memory, have a broken healthcare system, we're seeing decreases in life expectancy, epidemic levels of suicide, etc. and all of this at a time when the market is at ridiculous highs. There are very few people talking about this in highly coherent ways, one is Eric Weinstein on his podcast The Portal, which focuses on this. What we have seen in the past 50 years is that physics has hit a wall in delivering meaningful real world improvements for people's lives, biology has largely done the same, and chemistry pushes forward at a snails pace in the form of pharmaceuticals. The saving grace that makes everyone feel as though we're progressing is technology, which seems to have hit the same wall in recent years since most of the easy problems to solve with computer science have been solved.
In the soft sciences, economics has some deeply troubling problems down to the fundamentals, our politics/government/public policy is damaged and decaying at the root, academia has exploded in cost with little payoff for most, and has entrenched itself as a inescapable shadow that looms over young people for the rest of their life, all while cannibalizing those who speak out against it.
Many great advancements are threatening to become meaningful, but many more have been doing that for decades. It really seems like we are running out of easy problems to solve, and the systems that we have in place are remarkably bad at solving hard problems, while being remarkably good at concentrating wealth
I often think of the first few lines of a poem by Allen Ginsberg:
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking
in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats
floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz..."
I'm seeing the best minds of my generation destroyed trying to sell ad space, starved of connection, posting selfies looking for a hollow fix.