Tangent. This "middle income" designation seems to have us stuck in the same rut that we were in when using "third world". It didn't initially mean 3rd place, b

Tangent. This "middle income" designation seems to have us stuck in the same rut that we were in when using "third world". It didn't initially mean 3rd place, but ended up being understood as such, and thus bestowed undeserved stereotypes. Well, byusing the term middle income we are locking ourselves into a paradigm were we are fighting to keep a middle class and take for granted the lower and upper class. We should instead be approaching the issues in a more nuanced manner, one in which we work so that no one is without their basic human needs being met and income inequality is reduced such that there is no group of 55 people that have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of global population.