Chances are if you’re typing on a computer and you have Internet access, you’re probably in a first world country. Your problems are those that evolve from living in that environment. Which isn’t that unthinkable, because I can relate.
Wondering what sort of things someone in a third world country would say on here. I’m thinking ignorance is bliss, so suicide is probably a foreign concept.
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If I lived in a third world country I might wonder if I should smear crushed caterpillars on my toast, or maybe I could go with some crunchy cockroaches. It’s hard to dress up your toast with such limited options.
Thankfully I live in a land with jelly & butter.
First world problems can be just as bad as third world. There are countless “third world” people better off than me even though I have a computer, and I’d happily trade lives with any of them. Serious deformities like what I have occur in both first and third world. Starvation, homelessness, freezing to death; all of those things can happen anywhere in the world. I am a first world person that lives in poverty. The computer, food and shelter are provided by my parents without that, I’d be on the street. I am accustomed to being outside, being cold, lacking medical care, all of that and I live in the “best country”, USA.
i almost posted something along these lines earlier:
the more factors you add to a problem, the more complicated it becomes.
So… you could say that first world problems are “worse” than non-first-world problems… although that seems absurd.
It’s all a matter of perception… To some, having no internet is a crisis. While, to others, having no food is the crisis. In the third world, I would imagine that many of the crisis situations revolve around NEEDS such as food, clothing, shelter, etc. Perhaps in more developed countries, the situations may revolve around WANTS more. There are exceptions, of course…
I feel your environment and the problems in it usually fill threshold of what you can handle. As they say, “situation dictates”