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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: In current state, my first world style living means suffering of others.

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Me and my dad had a conversation in a car concerning this problem. I thought in order for me to enjoy this way of living, it required other people in some place else to suffer in some way. Just like one organism cannot sustain itself alone(even plants require others to produce CO2), society cannot sustain easy and comfortable way of living without others' sacrifice.  Well, my dad was trying to convince me otherwise, but I found it unconvincing. I hope to understand my father's argument more, see if it is really viable to have a society that is great on its own. Thanks in advance!
gpt
> in order for me to enjoy this way of living, it required other people in some place else to suffer

If suffering is defined as not living at the same standard of life as you then yes. However having the opportunity to make the shirt you're wearing most likely decreases the suffering of the factory worker who makes it. If that factory didn't come to their village that worker would likely have to do an even more remedial job (maybe farming rice?).

This is how societies advance. They don't just jump from subsistence farming to engineering. It's a slow growth from substance farming to commercial farming to manufacturing to...

Just think about the jump from subsistence farming to commercial farming. Farmer Wei has a few seasons of successful crops. So successful he is able to sell some of his surplus to his neighbors in the village. With this extra unexpected money he sees an opportunity to improve his life. Next season he won't need to provide his own food; he can buy it. And since he can buy it he might be able to farm commercially.

Monoculture is much more profitable so now that Farmer Wei is only growing rice he has to lean on all of his neighbors to supplement his and his family's diet. Wei has an opportunity to make more money and be more comfortable bit he relies on others to make this possible.

This is a gross oversimplification and you are separated by many more degrees from he Chinese factory worker who made your shirt. But the same principal applies.