“ MAN’S MATERIAL WEALTH “ 1976 AMWAY FOUNDER RICH DEVOS SPEECH CAPITALISM VS. SOCIALISM XD46124

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Dating to 1976 and released by Dow Chemical’s public affairs office, this film “Man’s Material Wealth“ presents a speech by Rich DeVos, the president of Amway Corporation. In the film, DeVos references the Cold War struggle between the Democracies of the West and the Socialist nations of the East, contrasting the fundamentals of the free enterprise economic system against socialism. The key formula presented in the film, developed by the American Economic Foundation (AEF, is MMW = NR HE x T, meaning that Man’s Material Wealth equals Natural Resources plus Human Energy times Tools. (The AEF was organized in Cleveland by Fred G. Clark in 1939 to promote the libertarian ideals of a free market and limited government, but ceased to exist in 2003.) In this instance, the “tools“ DeVos is referring to are anything that allows us to be more productive (computers, trucks,