"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you." -Mazer Rackham - Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
At the same time, where I live, we have well-water, and it isn't a very good well. The water doesn't taste very good and the water gets "muddy" from time to time. Possibly cheaper in the long run to get some kind of water filter, but the stuff you get in the store to hook up to your sink faucets do not last very long. Water is fine for cooking and bathing, but not something I prefer to drink out of the faucet. In this case, there is a big difference in taste between our tap water and bottled. It's still cheap enough, just buy big cases of the store-brand stuff. $3.99 for 35 bottles. Now, the people paying $1.00+ per bottle? Yeah, that's stupid.
Living in a time of more access to information than ever before, yet still have people complain about the media. You are not posting this on a radio...
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
Every damn thing you do in this life, you pay for. - Edith Piaf
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
No amount of belief makes something a fact. - James Randi
I agree with most of this however I don't think it is restricted to only 1st world countries.
Existing Democratic societies all over the world have the problem where the population either don't care, don't understand the policies and their consequences or vote for somebody because they always have and/or feel obliged to because of their families/backgrounds. Thus, retarded is not a word I would use to describe the voters you're talking about, Misinformed or Ignorant would be more accurate.
Emerging Democratic societies are still rife with corruption and conflict. It's pretty hard to make a vote for the right person when both candidates are as bad as each other. As an example, take a look at Egypt and it's recent election and the outcome from that.
How do you solve all this? Well the way we could solve a lot of problems in this world, Education.
Back on topic though,
- High Petrol Prices (Funnily, the 2nd/3rd world countries where the oil comes from don't have this problem )
- Increasing costs of living and the gap between rich and poor growing
- Peoples ignorance of Computers and IT, even though they are essential to what they do (I'm an IT tech)
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And Justin Beiber (This one could be classed as a worldwide problem though I suppose)
Microtransactions and F2P games.
Subprime mortgages, 20% credit card interest rates in tiny print, EA's DRM schemes... none of this is worse than microtransactions and F2P games. In fact, no corporate evil is worse than microtransactions and F2P games.
Taking the title of this thread literally.. I would say when electricity or even worse water get cut off dead in the middle of the summer for more than a few hours. It is pure first world hell.
There's still poverty. There's no way with our resources that ANYONE should be below the poverty line, especially children!
"There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you." -Mazer Rackham - Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
When I'm playing WoW on my laptop outside in the sun and I can't see shit cause my shirt is reflecting on the screen
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Got 2 monitors, a nice pc, keyboard, mouse and headset, a decent tv and a new blu-ray and dvd player.
TOO MANY DAMN WIRES AMAGAD.
When my internet dies out and the company says "it will be back online as soon as possible".
I don't pay for "as soon as possible", I pay for now. Get off your asses and do something about it, twice this week now.
like = if you cri evryy tiem
ignore = yur hertles
oh, and lets not forget about chain mails such as "today is money bags day! share this to X people within Y minutes and you will get money!" and all other variations of that >.<