It's quite possible that the parents provided too well for him. It's a fine line, and I get it... we want our children to have a better life than we did/do - that's part of the job of every parent (imo). But in doing so, it also is a contributor to the sense of 'entitlement' that this new generation (by-and-large) has. My kids have never had to want for anything - they've had sooooo much more than I ever did by the age of 18; vacations, gadgets, computers, clothes, toys ... you name it. We've provided so much for them, I sometimes worry that they won't be able to transition into their adult life with realistic expectations for of what life owes them - which is absolutely nothing.
I'm not sure we realize just how true this is. And it's not even necessarily the parents (though it is, don't get me wrong). But there's a more insidious nature to this: when I was a kid, if I missed a TV show, I had to deal with it. There were no "on demands" or "Hulus". I might get lucky and catch it on rerun in the summer, but it was dumb luck. But I learned to accept that not everything was going to go my way, and not everything was available to me. If I really wanted to watch a show, I had to put in the effort. If there was a "happening" - for some reason, Charles Rocket saying "fuck" on SNL comes to mind - if I didn't catch it live, it was gone. FOREVER. Nowadays? "Hey sweetie, such and such is on; come watch it with me!" "Uh, no Dad, I'm going to binge watch the season, with creator commentary, this weekend." It's an entitlement culture. You see it in advertising ("You deserve the best!"), you see it in almost every aspect of life. What do some of these kids have to 'figure out'?
And not to throw a bone to guys like TAC (and me, as you'll see), but I know my kid will laugh at me if I try to make something work. I had a ten year old Denon receiver and it worked perfectly; sounded so good, but it was a nightmare with all the HDMI inputs. So I posted (here, as it happens) found out there was a switch I could get and ran the wires. Problem solved! They called it "Bill's Switch" in my house because everyone under the age of 25 thought it was ridiculous that I didn't go out and buy a new receiver. (And the moral here is not about being "cheap", but rather, having to make do and focus on the end goal, not the ease of getting there).
We were talking about work, and I said "well, you realize that the objective of work is to make money for the business, right? Not to have a comfy chair, or great hours, or a boss that loves you and thinks you're the "Kanye to her Kim..." and the only person in the room that didn't look at me like I was high was my father-in-law, who mumbled "amen" under his breath. Now, those things HELP you make money for the business, no doubt, but the point was, it's not about YOU.
Rant over, sorry.