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South Africa - produces and consumes
more than 40 percent of the wealth of
the town, yet with
8
percent of its
people.
Another family of 8 - represented
by the six Common Market nations plus
Japan - is a fast-rising trading family
in this town. But they still produce only
20 percent of the town's wealth. Much
of that is disbursed in trade to the other
families, not consumed by the family
which produces it.
A third relatively wealthy family of
9
people - represented by the Soviet
Union and her six major Eastern Euro–
pean satellite nations - also produces
20 percent of the town's wealth.
But the Anglo-American family still
produces
more
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about 41.3% - of
the town's wealth than the other two
"wealthy" families
combined
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about
39.7%!
The other 75 townspeople in the
remaining 9 "families" - what do they
produce and consume? Only 19 percent
of the town's wealth!
The average Anglo-American pro–
duces and consumes more than 20 times
as much as the average one of the other
- representing all of Latin America,
mainland Asia, Africa ( except Rhodesia
and South Africa), the Middle East,
and severa! natioos in Europe not
induded in the Common Market or
Soviet blocs.
More Amazing Comparisons
The balance of wealth is even more
striking when compared to smaller por–
tions of the United States. For instance,
if either California or New York were
separately chartered as a nation, either
one would be the
sixth
ríchest nation ín
the world ! The state of lllinois
annually produces more than the entire
continent of Africa! The eight indus–
trial states stretching from New York to
Illinois produce as much as either the
Common Market, or the Soviet Union,
or
ALL
of Latín America, Africa, Asia
(except Japan), and the Middle East
combined!
The U. S. has 10 different corpora–
tions larger in value of production than
any single black African nation. Gen-
eral Motors produces as much as all of
Mexico.
Shockingly, the gross income of Gen–
eral Motors is greater than the yearly
budgets of all but four of the 126 mem–
bers of the United Nations.
American corporations
abroad
now
produce about $200 billion annually. In
other words, if foreign corporatioos of
the U. S. were a single natioo, they
would comprise the Number Two free
nation of the world - right behind
Maínland U.S.A.
And yet, all th.ese comparisons are
based on 1968 world production fig–
ures.
If
you step back to 1950, Anglo–
American domination was even greater.
1950 - The Zenith of Power
In 1950, Britain's Commonwealth
still encompassed 61 nations on every
inhabited continent, representing 13
million square miles and 625 million
people - one fourth of the world's
land and people. The Commonwealth
and the United States combined pro–
duced over
half
the world's goods, and