who owns the world?

Answer 1

MAJiK WIL sooner or later

Answer 2

I can tell you who for damn sure does not "own" the world and that's the people. Average, regular hard-working folk DO NOT own this cess pool of a world that has been just about destroyed by poverty, famine, war, de-forestation (sp.?)..you name it. The super rich own this world..always have and always will. Oh and I wouldn't even call America the only remaining super power either. That title is very nearly lost to them now and will soon be handed over to China. While America faces national bankruptcy China's economy and standard of living is going through the roof. If anything they will soon "own" the world.

Answer 3

The idea that America owns the world is a crude kind of picture-thinking, an attempt to make the inherently abstract and frustratingly elusive nature of economic processes concrete by putting a human face on it. This is the same kind of thinking that on the right produces the anti-Semitic stereotype of the Jewish financier, the puppet master who pulls the strings of world governments. It is a flipside to the fantasy that Japanese businessmen or Saudi sheiks are controlling America from thousands of miles away, when in fact our largest foreign investor has always been Britain.

About half the world’s billionaires are in the U.S., 341 out of 691, according to Forbes, which parades them annually before the public like swimsuit models. So where does their money come from? Not all their companies rely on cheap foreign labor like Wal-Mart and Nike. Michael Dell is #18 on the list with $16 billion, while his company continues to manufacture its computers in the U.S. for the North American market. The software barons and cable kings are not even manufacturers at all, traditionally speaking.

There are three main forms of exploitation: controlling resources, controlling labor and controlling markets. If we look beyond the colonization of resources and labor, we see U.S. dominance increase considerably. For example, Microsoft does not make its products in refineries or sweatshops but it does unfairly monopolize domestic and international markets. It does not own the world so much as it owns something much of the world depends on, and it makes them pay through the nose for it, with profit margins as high as 86% for the Windows operating system. Coca-Cola is a similar case, raking in the same kind of 20% profit margins for its products as oil and pharmaceutical companies do. These gigantic monopolies make their profits by controlling the market, exploiting consumers in addition to workers.

In the end we only rent the world......all is folly

Answer 4

On paper, at least, the Vatican owns a large chunk of it. All of the western hemisphere in fact. See the Papal Bull of 1493 of Pope Alexander VI wherein he claimed all the land in the western hemisphere from the Arctic to the Antarctic - a particularly neat trick considering Antarctica was not officially discovered until the 19th century.

http://www.kwabs.com/bull_of_1493.html

Answer 5

who owns the world

The answer, quite simply and beyond dispute, is that the resources of the earth as well as the tools of production and the instruments of distribution do not belong to society. They are the property of a relatively small minority class of capitalists. The working class is denied access to the land, factories, mills, mines, warehouses, stores and other resources of society except when they are permitted to work in the production of wealth.

It is the working class that applies its skills and energies to the resources of nature and produces all wealth. But workers are only permitted to work in such circumstances as hold out the promise of profit for their masters. Whether its bread or battleships, production is not undertaken simply to satisfy real or imagined need. The primary purpose of production is profit and if there is not the prospect of profit for the capitalist class then, however essential the needs of the working class are, if there is no profit there is no production. That is why people who can not pay for food die of hunger; that is why thousands of children whose parents have not got the equivalent of 50p for readily-available treatment go blind; that is why we say that it is absurd to say that our society is civilised

Answer 6

Lmao you people who actually think the world belongs to the people are idiots! the bloodie governments and the corrupt nations of this world do .i.e USA, China, Russia etc any countrys capable of nuclear power and those with nuclear weapons do...cop on...and pull your finger out you *** in the cloud eejits!

Answer 7

Everyone in the world whos still alive...!

Answer 8

Me. Gerrorfmoilaand

Answer 9

Politically: America is the superpower of the moment.

This is soon gonna change methinks.

Answer 10

Unfortunately, the oil refining companies.

Answer 11

You own your own world (I hope) and I own mind.