I've often suspected third world countries stay "third world" because being rich in a poor country makes it a great place to live? (just as the second world co

I've often suspected third world countries stay "third world" because being rich in a poor country makes it a great place to live? (just as the second world countries which bordered the first seem to have done better than their ideological cores, it seems to me that first world countries which bordered the second have also done better)