[fumer]

> We call ourselves “Developed”. It’s already implicitly throwing in the towel - there is nothing more to be done. We’ve already developed.

I don't agree with this take. The terms "developed" and "developing" is just a politically correct term to classify countries based on their industrial base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

It's use has less to do with developed countries and everything to do with the need to frame the issue as countries working to get where others already are at the moment.

> This entire thinking and it’s psyche in our society feels like straight up propaganda. It used to be first-world and third-world.

I also don't feel you're right here as well. "Third-world" does not refer to a ranking. It was a classification based on where a nation was with regards to the Cold War. Either they're a NATO and NATO-aligned country, a Warsaw pact and USSR country, or you kept yourself out of the cold war and thus were a part of the third world.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

Development and industrialization and economic output had nothing to do with it.

[agustif]

It seems a backwards causation, as in the Third World didn't get money's to build the industrial complex to support cold war era efforts, and thus in current times it became the developing countries, vs the developed ones who got all the war-mongering monies