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I'm not seeing the connection here, and don't see any mention of country of origin in the parent's post. Can you explain further?
by MereInterest 4y ago
I'm not seeing the connection here, and don't see any mention of country of origin in the parent's post. Can you explain further?
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoI suppose it's a bit of a first world problem to be able to spend 100K on a game. But I'm not sure why this isn't a legitimate problem for people in "first world" countries. Why shouldn't be allowing companies to capitalise on people's addictions. I'm not sure why the existence of people who have it even worse off should compel us to do what we can to prevent people from not ruining their lives.
- MereInterest 4y agoThank you, and that was my guess, but I had been hoping the parent poster had a better reason for it. I get rather frustrated with the "first-world problem" argument, as it can be used to dismiss almost any problem at all. So long as there exists a worse problem somewhere, every other problem can be dismissed as irrelevant. What started as a way to dismiss complaints of minor inconvenience ballooned out into a dismissal of major systemic problems.