I just graduated college and what seems to be the problem among my peers wasn't that they were coddled too much but that they were facing the prospect of spending years of their life and tens of thousands of dollars and still not getting a job. If hard work guaranteed a job after college there wouldn't be this wave of anxiety. I know some people who worked super hard on college but still don't have a job after they graduate and if the older generations had to meet strict metrics or be unemployed they would've been stressed, too.
