This article is written with a sympathetic attitude. Such attitude leads to parasites in the making. An MBA doing marketing, an engineer finding solutions is the norm of the skills mentioned.
Instead of finding alternatives/solutions to the problems, the article sympathizes with the loosers. All the three people quoted as examples have little reality on what they are doing. The article should have addressed the issues like if you are in a situation like this, then taking an alternative step like training or seeking guidance will help. As I wrote earlier in my previous message, the author needs to be smacked for lack of realistic knowledge/insight into the subject and is negative.