Rich / Poor – the new World's new frontier. The global number of people holding more than one million dollars of assets is 10 millions. They are now equally distributed between Asia, America and Northern-Europe, but the most important concentrations of millionaires can be found in the USA, in Japan and in Germany. Their assets account for more than 20 thousand billions dollars. A 1.4% of the European and Northern American population now lives under the poverty line, while the purchasing power of the middle class keeps eroding.
In 1920 Gandhi imposes the use of the spinning wheel as a symbol of Indian protectionnism against the colonial power represented by the UK. 80 years later, India and Asia have become the world's manufacturing plants.
