While there's definitely a "first world problem" aspect of squabbling about smartphones, as Android continues to grow in market share, there may in fact be a class-war element at work here.

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So we're left with a first-world problem for the haves, and aggravated resentment for the have-nots.

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Any concern about these two players is baseball's version of a first-world problem.

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The first is a developed world problem, the challenge working-class youth without higher education face finding work in a de-industrialized society.

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Kevin Starr, California's leading historian, points out that the mood in the state is reminiscent of the aftermath of the first and second world wars, when government was calmly regarded as a useful problem-solver and ideology was so muted that, in 1947, Earl Warren won both the Republican and Democratic nominations for the governorship.

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Like a first world war general you compound it by thinking that consigning yet more troops' lives will solve the problem.

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In the charity world, success is tied to being the first to implement a program designed to solve a social problem, the lawsuit says.

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The anterior cruciate ligament problem halted his progress after he won silver at the 2007 world championships -- another first for Japan.

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