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> Second, the expectation of coddling is a very very recent phenomenon

I think the expectation of (and complaints about!) coddling are actually historically very well trodden. There's a great reddit thread about this [1] which details historic complaints from the Greco-Roman era all the way to the present.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/7btv14/the_more_th...




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