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>Be me
>A third-worlder
>Read about issues in lives of internet stranges
>first_world_problems.exe
> mfw
I don't know what I expected. People stuff themselves in trucks and boats to come to your countries in search of a better life. Have some perspective.
If people don't have problems they invent them.
Feel fortunate everyday I happened to be given the circumstances I was. Could have been born in Russia and be dying in the cold while my death is televised to electronic music.
Perspective, and getting out of your own ass, are quite useful lol.
The sad thing is that most who do make such travel to the first world wont be able to find a better life here at all.
Its a misperception created by the economic propaganda politicians use to make themselves look good, sure in theory there is more wealth around but ask the many starving homeless how much of that end up benefitting them.
Not far from my job is an official place where people can request asylum. Over 50% who have the legal right are refused. The paperwork is so idiotic that the state is spending extra money so they can fine themselves but also refusing to pay those fines. In the mean time people dying in the park across the street is a regular occurrence.
The first world is mentally ill. Its a soulless controlled system designed to minimize time spend with people you trust and care about, maximize time spend creating value for the gdp counter. Trying to help people in public can end up in them acting hostile to you.
We mix up happiness with paying for stuff we don't need, mix up sustainable healthy lives with having enough money saved to hypothetically pay a emergency hospital bill.
Half my friends have seen the inside of a psych ward, a third has made plans to leave to start a new hermit live off the grid. Some have successfully decided to cut their lives short in order to escape.
I assume all first world countries will be a little different, but in most your chances will depend on your socio economic circles like how rich your parents are, wether your grandparents still own a home to pass down to you. But if you come here with nothing but a bag on your back.. often criminals will recruite/exploit and reduce them to a slave, alternatively they starvd/ freeze dead in winter or murder/rape each other out of desperation
Tldr: grass looks greener on the other side, its not, It just has different weeds.
Why don't you just stay and make your country better?
Some people tried that and got killed by the US. Like Salvador Allende. And they tried the same thing on Castro literally hundreds of times.
Can ask the same thing to whiny first worlders.