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Originally Posted by fintstone
I hate the term "helping those less fortunate" as it makes it sound like folks who have made good choices and have worked very hard their entire life are somehow "lucky". To me, a "first world problem" is that in this land of opportunity, we still have people who manage to not take advantage of it. A real first world problem is that there are so many people that are able to be obese without working...and that there are jobs "that Americans will not do".
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While that is a good point, some people have had some awful luck...
A first world problem is being in a land of opportunity and not taking advantage of it while some people from real third world countries would kill (and do) for a chance at that opportunity.