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nazgulnarsil on Feb 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-sh...

why so much sympathy for the first world poor? because they are visible? I find sympathy for "poor" people living in fantastic conditions morally repugnant. humanity has serious problems to tackle.

marshallp on Feb 29, 2012 [–]

Feeling sympathy for first world poor doesn't mean you can't also feel sympathy for the third world poor.

nazgulnarsil on Feb 29, 2012 | [–]

If I have a million dollars I care less about $1. If someone is being tortured I care less about someone working 12 hour days.

utility functions are not linear.

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