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HA.

How could school not be stressful.

Same rooms. Every Day. Same kids. Same motivations. Same tapping-of-the-foot. Same stagnation. Same restlessness. Same mockery. Same shame.

'Stupid fucking faggot retard loser fatty useless cunt.'

Try living with that cacophonous litany for 8 hours daily and not coming out a little fucked.

Absolutely a first world problem but I would have 100% more enjoyed an apprenticeship or something similar.

I hated myself all throughout high-school. Hated. Cogitated on my own self termination regularly.

Today, working on my own, I feel so much better; not having to actively think about the various groups I have to conform to or rules I have to follow... Extremely liberating.

I just want to freelance, actively contribute, subsist, and die.

I'm not a piece of shit for wanting that.

> Absolutely a first world problem

I don't understand this statement.

Doesn't this mean it's a problem every developing nation will eventually face?

Wouldn't it be nice to have already figured out a solution by then?

In common parlance, the term "first world problem" is an indication that we are fretting over things that are only problems because of our relative affluence and status. Sometimes it's also intended to poke fun at people who are a little bit too precious.

There is a related thing called "fallacy of relative privation."

"First world problem" is a way of saying that the problem is very low stakes and would only appear in an area where people already have their more basic needs attended to. For example, if I want my coffee to have cinnamon in it and no sugar - but the cinnamon is mixed with sugar. That's a 'first world problem'.

Means it's something to gripe about when you're pretty high up on Maslov's hierarchy and not worried about war, hunger, disease, or any of the other horsemen of the apocalypse. Similar to white-girl problems

Yeah it would be great to have nuclear fusion figured out as well wouldn't it...?

What was your point here?

Probably that dismissing real problems with the pejorative "first world problem" is counterproductive, especially when we do it to ourselves.

Reminds me of : this one by George Carlin >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0MKBdD2FGA

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