Agreed. This is typical anti-intellectualism disguised in academic language. They make frequent appeals to the past, talk about the "West" as a unified concept (a favorite of the modern Right that sounds catchy but has no real substance) - and they insinuate that refusal to work is a moral failure of individuals, rather than symptoms of a declining economic system. They cherry pick information to support their points and get more and more preachy as the article goes on.