First World Problems

[Video Games]

Getting mad at the phrase first world problems because it implies I can't have a problem.

[Mteq]

Not really a first world problem, people all over the world have to work.

Also, I've always seen the whole "first world problem" thing as a way to criticize people for not being happy with their place in society. At least that's how a lot of people use it, someone complains about some minor issue and someone else responds by calling their problem a "first world problem" as a way of guilt tripping the original person into just shutting up because damnit there are children in Africa who are starving to death.

It's a classic case of telling people no problem but the worst one in the whole world is important enough. Of course, the reasoning behind this is flawed, a bit of a false dichotomy you might say, implying that a person who's pissed about the battery in their cellphone going bad and discharging too quickly can't also care about war orphans or environmental issues, that it's somehow an "either or" situation. You either care about your cellphone's battery being crap or you care about those with worse problems.

It also doesn't factor in that humans never evolved to think on the scale we're expected to, the scale of the world that we can observe from the comfort of our own homes is just too great. A few hundred years ago what most people knew about was just their immediate surroundings, now you can go online or turn on your TV and see suffering from all corners of the world, it's just too much for our brains to constantly deal with.

3rd world countries tend to not have lotteries, fair ones at least. and it wasn't directed at the work directly, more about being upset for not winning the lottery.

and way to over analyse a joke. this "first world problem meme" is supposed to be black and white and a bit ridiculously over the top. otherwise it wouldn't be a meme in the first place.

[bekilrwale]

I'm hungry but I don't want to go to the kitchen with the cleaning lady here.

[Deleted]

Making a hot drink and forgetting about it, then you have to drink it cold