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{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' Wow! This reminds me of the time when I was umm, living on the street and this guy offered to buy me food if I slept with him.
'''Rachel:''' Well, h-how is this like that?
'''Phoebe:''' Well, let’s see, it’s not. Really, like that. Because, you see that was an actual problem, and uh, yours is just like y’know a bunch of y’know high school crap that nobody really gives y’know…
|''[[Friends]]'', [[Lampshade Hanging|addressing accusations of this trope]] [[In-Universe]].}}
Some problems are universal and basic: death, disease, hunger, thirst, cold, poverty, physical pain. These are part of the human condition and could happen to anybody.
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== Literature ==
* Post-apocalyptic fiction in general, when they are deliberately
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Firefly]]'': The technology is there if you can afford it, but Mal and his crew constantly have to deal with basic human needs like food and medicine, the corruption of the Alliance,
* ''[[The Wire]]'': Taking place in the ghettos of Baltimore, one of the main themes of the series is how institutional dysfunction creates the Third World conditions of the inner city, feeds into criminal organizations, and inevitably aligns consumer culture with addiction culture.
* [[Invoked Trope]] by [[Cloudcuckoolander|Phoebe]] on ''[[Friends]]'' of all places. At first, [[Broken Bird|her mother's suicide and teenage homelessness]] were occasionally played for [[Black Comedy]], but later became part of her [[Character Development]].
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