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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by ArkyBeagle on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @09:56AM (#11620652)
It's really Old World, New World and Other, which was labelled "The Third World". It's not supposed to be ordinal.

Media is advertising supported ( mostly still ) and it's therefore targeted at the New World, which breeds this curious resentment. But if one of these Worlds is to be the Second, I'd think it would be the New World.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by kgwgk on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @03:26PM (#11623489)
Actually the term "Third World" was used to refer to the non-aligned countries (as opposed to NATO on one side and the communist bloc on the other).
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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by Aoyagi on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:37AM (#11627018)
Yeah, it's can have many meanings (including "non-EU, non-EEC and non-EFTA countries". I just used the one that's the most popular. ^^
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