This is an example of an actual "first world problem."
Other first world problems include:
* Decarbonizing energy and achieving a sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure. (Not coincidentally Elon's also doing work in that area.)
* Curing the diseases of aging and achieving significant life extension.
* Augmenting and enhancing human intelligence.
* Closing natural resource cycles to achieve a much higher rate of recycling and lower overall resource consumption.
* Discovering new positive-sum solutions to the conflict between economic liberty and economic fairness / wealth distribution. These problems are probably game theoretic in nature and will probably require thinking at that level.
* Unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity and unlocking a comprehensive and coherent understanding of ultimate physical reality.
* Achieving a true holistic comprehension of the language of genetics and inheritance that goes far beyond "a gene for X" correlation-fishing.
Other first world problems include:
* Decarbonizing energy and achieving a sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure. (Not coincidentally Elon's also doing work in that area.)
* Curing the diseases of aging and achieving significant life extension.
* Augmenting and enhancing human intelligence.
* Closing natural resource cycles to achieve a much higher rate of recycling and lower overall resource consumption.
* Discovering new positive-sum solutions to the conflict between economic liberty and economic fairness / wealth distribution. These problems are probably game theoretic in nature and will probably require thinking at that level.
* Unifying quantum mechanics with general relativity and unlocking a comprehensive and coherent understanding of ultimate physical reality.
* Achieving a true holistic comprehension of the language of genetics and inheritance that goes far beyond "a gene for X" correlation-fishing.