Can We All Stop Saying "First World Problems"?
21 November 2017 [link youtube]
#FirstWorldProblems
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you know what's on my mind it's become
really popular for people to try to shut each other down when they say like I'm depressed I'm unemployed I have a broken leg and they say Oh first of all problems you know we saw NECN doing that where it's like how can you say you're depressed when there are other people living in a bomb crater you know that yeah but like okay let's say let's say you know we're in Canada and I say you know I'm trying to build a suspension bridge that links you know the two sides of this chasm Oh first world problems that when I lived in a third-world country we didn't have a suspension bridge we just trained a bunch of elephants to stand in a row and put planks of wood over their backs and then drive our motorcycles over that we didn't built like what you know how how is it useful for anyone to pretend like my problems don't matter or that I don't have to solve them just because somewhere else in the world hypothetically somebody has an even worse problem like how it's wildly spurious you know it's it's in the truest sense of the word of fusca Tory it is of fusca Tory like okay look I'm trying to build this suspension bridge do you want to help me or not like that's that's a great story it's a true story by the way it's a great story that in Laos well allows us being bombed by the Americans they didn't have a bridge and they trained a bunch of elephants to form a temporary bridge we actually we did that in Laos that's yes it's pride in what it's a minor anecdote from the Lao working for that's that's why we want this Wow look something very that kind of edgy duty I mean it's you know but like you know people are depressed the people are unemployed and people are struggling with real-world real-life problems and you know okay like so even within like even within Canada you know it's really really sad that a lot of people of a university diploma and then have to struggle to get a job where he might a counter at a 7-eleven or something else like that what good does it how does it fans the conversation or they say old firstworldproblems like is the point that you should be happy just to work at a 7-eleven even if you're overqualified for that but that's wrong yeah like can we just admit that is manifestly wrong I knew a guy he's still here he's someone he's here in China right now he's a white guy living in China and he completed his PhD in history in the United States of America so let's all be clear like even if you go to the place of the cheapest tuition in America that's a lot it's a lot of money as well as a lot of time to get a PhD in the United States of America even if you're doing Community College or something but anyway he got a PhD in history and then after that the only job he could get was sitting in a cubicle at a parking lot you know with the parking where the cars drive in and out and you you know you taking any money and you know surprise surprise he was getting depressed and suicidal and now that was a different era that would have been a couple decades ago and when people said to almost oh just just don't mention that you have a PhD just leave it off your resume or like just don't feel how does this help but even that that's less nauseous that's less terrible than like Oh hashtag first world problems why don't you tell that to the people who are starving in a war zone in Yemen well you know like okay I've done some humanitarian work in some third-world countries you know what you know what like the surprising irony is I think if you actually sit they don't have a conversation about this with people in Yemen or people in Cambodia I think they actually can relate it's not hard for them to understand the struggle of like wow you put in all these years you got a PhD in history and now you're stuck working in a cubicle a tarp argument biess even if I just use those two examples just lotions and Cambodians they can understand that struggle they can relate to that struggle and you know maybe you can relate to their struggle to you know like you got nothing to say on this you have no pent-up rage about the the first world problems no have you have you dealt with this or no if you dealt with this either in real life or on facebook or in the gray area halfway between real life and facebook but people problems but people don't throw that in your face when you complain about your own life for your own situation you said you're trying to build a suspension bridge they're like ooh are you gonna use rope white girl your first world rope that you got from the Rope store when I was your age I had to go down to a battlefield and scavenge rope from a dead body okay anyway you know it's weird like you know I've said before when I enrolled in university I was interested in studying economics because I wanted to study the philosophy of poverty I was really interested in poverty I was really interested in post-war disaster areas and poverty and terrible conditions I really was positively interested in that in terms of studying it in terms of helping in terms of humanitarian working you know that was so that was me and what was that 17 or something when you apply to go to university I don't even know what that is 17 or whatever but you know starting from starting from podunk ignorance as a teenager you know I was I was really interested in that stuff I felt there was a lot I felt that I had a lot to learn from poverty and post-war devastation and humanitarian product projects and reconstruction and you know I mean I did I did but my feeling that I had a lot to learn from the struggles of the four and then maybe I could contribute positive that through some kind of humanity remark I didn't see that as a way to snub and shut down middle class white people like that to me makes makes no sense at all to keep things in perspective I don't know if you got to wake up and go to work at that cubicle by the parking lot if you got to wake up and go to work at 7-eleven you know I think you need to be in touch with your anger you know your sense of dissatisfaction your sense of ambition what's wrong with ambition why vilify ambition easy ambition a first-world problem I don't think so think you know I think am I you know either you're either you were for it or against it hashtag ambition that's a good hashtag first world ambition yeah yeah well that specific example but I can see people complaining about things in American life so yeah really like this is a first world problem like yeah I just what came to my mind was one year the weather was really terrible in Michigan and where I was living the the driveway was just a dirt road right so the the snow cover was really uneven and it it had thawed and then frozen so when you shovel it you get like a mix of mud and ice but one day I got out of my car and um I had my I had my phone in my pocket because like first I got on my car second I got my even this I disagree with even this I disagree with because we're talking about this earlier you think people in Laos can't relate to that you think people in Cambodia can't relate to that seriously people in third world conditions have cell phones seriously I think that story like as silly as it is as a frustration life I think there are tons of people in third world countries who will relate to that right away and be able to tell their own story about that like ice mentioned an earlier video like Laos isn't in extreme poverty anymore it's now in this period of like moderate poverty but like they're in most of these countries there are people who are poor and they're struggling to survive but they own a cell phone and very often they even own a motorcycle there's still poor they're out there hustling but like these this is not some strange and amazing Western technology you know people all kinds of third-world countries that's the case you know very often the cell phone is the one technology that they used to get a job and get a girlfriend everything else like they mean they don't know their own apartment they're still living with their parents there are 20 people sharing a crowded apartment whatever but they have a cellphone right so I mean no I think better you say even that story I really would object that being first real problems if anything that funny experience is dropping your phone that's you know that bridges the divide that's something people in third world countries absolutely could relate to and would make life in America seem like it's not so different whether you're talking about third world countries in a cold climate or Hama let's ban hashtag first world problem ban it
really popular for people to try to shut each other down when they say like I'm depressed I'm unemployed I have a broken leg and they say Oh first of all problems you know we saw NECN doing that where it's like how can you say you're depressed when there are other people living in a bomb crater you know that yeah but like okay let's say let's say you know we're in Canada and I say you know I'm trying to build a suspension bridge that links you know the two sides of this chasm Oh first world problems that when I lived in a third-world country we didn't have a suspension bridge we just trained a bunch of elephants to stand in a row and put planks of wood over their backs and then drive our motorcycles over that we didn't built like what you know how how is it useful for anyone to pretend like my problems don't matter or that I don't have to solve them just because somewhere else in the world hypothetically somebody has an even worse problem like how it's wildly spurious you know it's it's in the truest sense of the word of fusca Tory it is of fusca Tory like okay look I'm trying to build this suspension bridge do you want to help me or not like that's that's a great story it's a true story by the way it's a great story that in Laos well allows us being bombed by the Americans they didn't have a bridge and they trained a bunch of elephants to form a temporary bridge we actually we did that in Laos that's yes it's pride in what it's a minor anecdote from the Lao working for that's that's why we want this Wow look something very that kind of edgy duty I mean it's you know but like you know people are depressed the people are unemployed and people are struggling with real-world real-life problems and you know okay like so even within like even within Canada you know it's really really sad that a lot of people of a university diploma and then have to struggle to get a job where he might a counter at a 7-eleven or something else like that what good does it how does it fans the conversation or they say old firstworldproblems like is the point that you should be happy just to work at a 7-eleven even if you're overqualified for that but that's wrong yeah like can we just admit that is manifestly wrong I knew a guy he's still here he's someone he's here in China right now he's a white guy living in China and he completed his PhD in history in the United States of America so let's all be clear like even if you go to the place of the cheapest tuition in America that's a lot it's a lot of money as well as a lot of time to get a PhD in the United States of America even if you're doing Community College or something but anyway he got a PhD in history and then after that the only job he could get was sitting in a cubicle at a parking lot you know with the parking where the cars drive in and out and you you know you taking any money and you know surprise surprise he was getting depressed and suicidal and now that was a different era that would have been a couple decades ago and when people said to almost oh just just don't mention that you have a PhD just leave it off your resume or like just don't feel how does this help but even that that's less nauseous that's less terrible than like Oh hashtag first world problems why don't you tell that to the people who are starving in a war zone in Yemen well you know like okay I've done some humanitarian work in some third-world countries you know what you know what like the surprising irony is I think if you actually sit they don't have a conversation about this with people in Yemen or people in Cambodia I think they actually can relate it's not hard for them to understand the struggle of like wow you put in all these years you got a PhD in history and now you're stuck working in a cubicle a tarp argument biess even if I just use those two examples just lotions and Cambodians they can understand that struggle they can relate to that struggle and you know maybe you can relate to their struggle to you know like you got nothing to say on this you have no pent-up rage about the the first world problems no have you have you dealt with this or no if you dealt with this either in real life or on facebook or in the gray area halfway between real life and facebook but people problems but people don't throw that in your face when you complain about your own life for your own situation you said you're trying to build a suspension bridge they're like ooh are you gonna use rope white girl your first world rope that you got from the Rope store when I was your age I had to go down to a battlefield and scavenge rope from a dead body okay anyway you know it's weird like you know I've said before when I enrolled in university I was interested in studying economics because I wanted to study the philosophy of poverty I was really interested in poverty I was really interested in post-war disaster areas and poverty and terrible conditions I really was positively interested in that in terms of studying it in terms of helping in terms of humanitarian working you know that was so that was me and what was that 17 or something when you apply to go to university I don't even know what that is 17 or whatever but you know starting from starting from podunk ignorance as a teenager you know I was I was really interested in that stuff I felt there was a lot I felt that I had a lot to learn from poverty and post-war devastation and humanitarian product projects and reconstruction and you know I mean I did I did but my feeling that I had a lot to learn from the struggles of the four and then maybe I could contribute positive that through some kind of humanity remark I didn't see that as a way to snub and shut down middle class white people like that to me makes makes no sense at all to keep things in perspective I don't know if you got to wake up and go to work at that cubicle by the parking lot if you got to wake up and go to work at 7-eleven you know I think you need to be in touch with your anger you know your sense of dissatisfaction your sense of ambition what's wrong with ambition why vilify ambition easy ambition a first-world problem I don't think so think you know I think am I you know either you're either you were for it or against it hashtag ambition that's a good hashtag first world ambition yeah yeah well that specific example but I can see people complaining about things in American life so yeah really like this is a first world problem like yeah I just what came to my mind was one year the weather was really terrible in Michigan and where I was living the the driveway was just a dirt road right so the the snow cover was really uneven and it it had thawed and then frozen so when you shovel it you get like a mix of mud and ice but one day I got out of my car and um I had my I had my phone in my pocket because like first I got on my car second I got my even this I disagree with even this I disagree with because we're talking about this earlier you think people in Laos can't relate to that you think people in Cambodia can't relate to that seriously people in third world conditions have cell phones seriously I think that story like as silly as it is as a frustration life I think there are tons of people in third world countries who will relate to that right away and be able to tell their own story about that like ice mentioned an earlier video like Laos isn't in extreme poverty anymore it's now in this period of like moderate poverty but like they're in most of these countries there are people who are poor and they're struggling to survive but they own a cell phone and very often they even own a motorcycle there's still poor they're out there hustling but like these this is not some strange and amazing Western technology you know people all kinds of third-world countries that's the case you know very often the cell phone is the one technology that they used to get a job and get a girlfriend everything else like they mean they don't know their own apartment they're still living with their parents there are 20 people sharing a crowded apartment whatever but they have a cellphone right so I mean no I think better you say even that story I really would object that being first real problems if anything that funny experience is dropping your phone that's you know that bridges the divide that's something people in third world countries absolutely could relate to and would make life in America seem like it's not so different whether you're talking about third world countries in a cold climate or Hama let's ban hashtag first world problem ban it