The author, Adam Ozimek, did some in-depth research on the sybject:
Sitting in front of a TV watching staged reality shows.
Seems like a radical who does not want anyone being able to be an independent thinking, self reliant citizen.
The fact that all producers are consumers but not all consumers are producers seems lost on some. I got into it some time back with a Freeper who posted some nonsense about how it was the consumer who drives the economy, he could not seem to grasp how absurd the idea is.
This essentially means that people like Ozimek are really reliant them, the reciprocal of his conclusion.