Comment on Why is the US not considered a third world country?

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notnotmike@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s a cold war term - basically, first world is the US and capitalist countries, second world is the Soviet and communist countries, and third world are the unaffiliated.

It’s slightly more nuanced than that, but that’s the basic summary.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

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