Economic Model Explained by Cow?SOCIALISMYou have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISMYou have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISMYou have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISMYou have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISMYou have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the
milk away…
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISMYou have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISMYou have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons
AN AMERICAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISMYou have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of
credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a
debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all
four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a
Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who
sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on
one more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving
you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
THE ANDERSEN MODELYou have two cows.
You shred them.
A FRENCH CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want
three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market
it worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and
milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATIONYou have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
AN INDIAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You worship them.
A BRITISH CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
Both are mad.
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
AN IRAQI CORPORATIONEveryone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your
country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a "Democracy…"
A CHINESE CORPORATIONYou have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
Yasnov's Blog
Mar 10 2008, 05:52 PM
