• manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz
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      14 hours ago

      I mean, by the original meaning of “first world country” we were by definition.

      The first and second world countries were the US and USSR after WW II, and their immediate spheres of influence. The term “third world country” was, if I recall correctly, originally a self-assigned label to essentially say “we’re not part of this shit-flinging fight”. Which then people started viewing as “too poor to be worth dragging into either major power’s sphere of influence” and then just “poor”.