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A.k.a. ‘first world problems’? Or do you mean something slightly different?

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I think that if you're well off and in the first world then there's a significant overlap between your nice problems to have and first world problems, bu e.g. someone in an impoverished country who finds themselves a steady job working in a sweat shop is now experiencing what are (from their point of view) nice problems to have as they find themselves with significantly more money than their former peers, and you certainly wouldn't say they've got first world problems.

Or, stepping away from money examples, someone who is extremely attractive has an annoyingly large number of people hitting on them, and is going to struggle to get much sympathy for this from someone who can't get a date.

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I have lots of these. It really helps to have found people with the same nice problems

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