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Go look at people in Syria or Venezuela who can barely find food. You're just a bunch of annoying spoiled brats. You need to struggle to find food, clear water and electricity to learn what struggle means. You need to try to rush your grandma to the hospital and see her die in your car in your arms, because of army gates blocking the way, to know the value of the luxury you're living at.
You'll never realize the blessing you're enjoying until you lose it. Grow up and learn to be thankful you have a full belly and warm water.
I mean, your argument basically boils down to "you can't complain, others have it worse", which is a toxic take. Should a person who lost a leg not be allowed to complain because someone in the world has lost two legs, and therefore is an annoyed spoiled brat who still has a leg? Should the only people allowed to complain be people on the verge of death, since they're the people who are the worst off? Does the argument work in reverse as in "you can't be happy, others have it better"?
You're using the word "toxic" to say that you don't like my opinion. Booho. Cry me a river. Your username says a lot about you and explains why your brain cannot comprehend a disagreement.
You haven't lost a leg. You haven't lost anything. You're amongst the richest people on the fucking planet with the most luxurious lifestyles with a smart phone that costs a month's income for a family in most of the world if not more. You never had to sleep hungry or lived in the dark because you can't pay for electricity, so give me a break. You're just a brat. That's all. Brat. Annoying, ignorant, spoiled brat who cannot appreciate the good stuff they have.
My argument works as: You're part of the richest people on earth. Shut up and enjoy it.
Not everyone wants to engage in a race to the bottom where you're not allowed to seek to improve your circumstances relatively to other even more lucky and privileged people in your own country because people in other countries have even less. If you were in any of the countries you're bringing up and talking to someone else in one of those countries you would literally be saying the exact same thing you are now you would just refer to someone in an even worse circumstance still, e.g. someone with two missing legs.
I bet you have things much easier than half the people in this thread and all you care about is making sure that isn't threatened so you have to try to uphold the status quo at all costs. Because all you really care about is yourself, not anybody in Venezuala or anywhere else they're just an argumentative tool to dismiss anybody who wants to make things better in their own country.
God you sound like an absolutely horrible miserable individual. Give my condolences to whomever is unlucky enough to have you in their lives.