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Originally Posted by JD159

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.

I am getting pretty old and am still waiting for luck to help me...or someone to give me something or help me financially. I suspect that it is just not going to happen. I would suggest that it is not the best way to get to the point where one has some of the problems espoused in this thread (unless one of the many that post here were born relatively well off). Even so, there was likely no luck there either...as their parents or grandparents likely did the sacrifice and hard work to provide the "good fortune" they enjoy.

My "first world" problem is to have a nice old Porsche that I don't have time to drive...because I have a good job (that requires me to be commuting or working most of the time).

...or the fact that I cannot get decent high speed internet or cable at my home yet have a big screen TV and nice computer. I just retuned home from a poor area in rural Korea and had great internet there. Infrastructure where I live is terrible. The US design for cable and DSL oligarpy creates a system where one company gets exclusive rights to operate in an area but can choose to only serve the most dense areas. Some complain about governmental entities like the post office and want to privatize them...but clearly that model does not work for essential services or utilities.