A Bit Long, But Awesome Economic Models Explained With Cows SOCIALISM; You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM; You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM; You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM:You have 2 cows. The government takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM; You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other and then throws the milk away. TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM ; You 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. DEMOCRACY: You have 2 cows. Your neighbor has none. You votepeople into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay for the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cowand give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous. AMERICAN CAPITALISM; You 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. FRENCH CAPITALISM; You have two cows. You go on strike, organize ariot, and block the roads, because you want three cows. A GERMAN CAPITALISM; You have 2cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month and milk themselves. A JAPANESE CAPITALISM; You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are 1/10 the size of an ordinary cow, and produce the milk of 20 cows. You then create aclever cow cartoon image called cowkimon and market them worldwide. ITALIAN CAPITALISM; You have twocows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch. SWISS CAPITALISM; You have 5,000cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them. CHINESE CAPITALISM; You have twocows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity. You arrest thenewsman who reported the real situation. RUSSIAN CAPITALISM; You have 2 cows. You count them and learn that you have 5 cows. You count them again and learn that you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn that you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of Vodka. INDIAN CAPITALISM; You have two cows. You worship them. BRITISH CAPITALISM; You have twocows. Both are mad. IRAQI CAPITALISM; Everyone thinksyou have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. Nobody believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows but at least you are now a Democracy. AUSTRALIAN CAPITALISM; You havetwo cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. NEW ZEALAND CAPITALISM; You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive. GREEK CAPITALISM; You have two cows borrowed from French and German banks. You eat both of them. The banks call to collect their milk, but you cannot deliver so you call the IMF. The IMF loans you two cows. You eat both of them. The banks and the IMF call to collect their cows/milk. You are out getting a haircut. credit: ankur mishra
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:08:41 +0000
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