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There are first world problems, and then there are "white whines".

Solving the problems of wealthy people might be rewarding and enriching (for the solver), but the actual impact on the world is generally much less than if you solved more pressing problems.

It's a law of diminishing returns. After a while, people should be able to solve their own problems. What they do instead is to redefine "problem" from "life-threatening risk" to "banal annoyance".

If you save a child from dying from cholera, they might grow up and change the world themselves. If you make it more convenient for spoiled white people to buy more shit to fill up their meaningless lives, not so much.



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