To better capture the weird superiority aspect that people have over their suffering in response to other people’s complaints. As written, it reads more like someone making a joke about not getting much sleep and then someone responding (not in a joking way) that they got less.
I think the text should be changed to like
To better capture the weird superiority aspect that people have over their suffering in response to other people’s complaints. As written, it reads more like someone making a joke about not getting much sleep and then someone responding (not in a joking way) that they got less.