These are rich men's problems, like complaining that your garage is too small for all your sports cars or your supermodel girlfriends won't stop pestering you for sex. Deprived of actual problems like war, famine or plague to worry about our society blows real but minor problems out of all proportion, like Islamic terrorism or climate change.

Self obsession and egotism are nothing new, nor is the tendency for every generation to view itself as the pinnacle of human development and the one following it as useless layabouts who will bring about the end of civilization. It's just that it's only recently that people have had the luxury of time to notice these things without being preoccupied by their family dieing of cholera or being slaughtered by marauding armies. Personally I prefer to live in a society where everyone has enough to eat than one where we can all feel smug about our moral fiber as we starve to death.