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First-world problems are actually important to solve well because if you don’t they turn into third-world problems making a lot more people unhappy in worse ways
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Well that too, but not quite what I was thinking of. It’s not so much that 3 billion people in Asia and Africa will have a version of the same problem in 10 years as the unhappy 0.75 billion people who have them today will cause different problems for the rest if not relieved
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Recycling is a good example. Much of it is futile and environmentally meaningless. It solves the first-world problem of environmental guilt through virtue signaling. The solution is bad. People in the 3rd world have to deal with the fallout. Until they say “no” that is.
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