>We need to understand just how completely and utterly reliant the vast majority of people are on the current system.
Only in the rich countries, which is a MINORITY of the planet's population. the MAJORITY of the world's population are actually the exploited victims of global capitalism. All the power is in the hands of a very small elite of people who have a vested interest in keeping the status quo.
"World inequality between households has increased, according to the latest studies. The income of the richest 1% (50m people) is the same as the income of the poorest 60% (2.7bn people).
And the all the gains in world income in the middle of the last decade went to the richest 20%, while the income of those in the bottom 50% actually declined."
BBC News, 18/06/02
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