• blarghly@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    I mean, it’s rather gauche. Plenty here are happy to make fun of, say, rich people’s problems with social relationships, white people’s problems feeling comfortable talking about race, or men’s dating problems. And yet the disparity in privilege between these people and the average lemming is trounced by the disparity between a peasant farmer in a developing nation and the average lemming.

    It seems the problems of the privileged are only reasonable to talk about when those problems relate to being a potentially-remote office worker in a developed nation. Strange that this is a disproportionately represented population here on Lemmy…