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Back in my day, my Mum used to listen to the internet on our house phone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

The current generation is "coddled", and they should be. I grew up in rural Alaska, in one of the snowiest spots on the globe. If other people had somewhat less hellish school commutes I would consider that civilized. If on the other hand the goal is to expose children to potentially lethal weather conditions, Alaska still exists.

That doesn't make it not true. It's very possible (and seems likely to me) that each generation has been more coddled than the previous in recent memory.

In fact it's the default expectation with the rising standards of living.

However that has started to stagnate for all but the upper middle class so the next decade should be quite interesting.

AKA Juvenoia https://youtu.be/LD0x7ho_IYc