{"id":915,"date":"2014-02-20T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:01:38","slug":"two-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/two-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWO COWS ~{Matthias Varga}<\/p>\n<p>SOCIALISM<br \/>\nYou have 2 cows.<br \/>\nYou give one to your neighbour<\/p>\n<p>COMMUNISM<br \/>\nYou have 2 cows.<br \/>\nThe State takes both and gives you some milk<\/p>\n<p>FASCISM<br \/>\nYou have 2 cows.<br \/>\nThe State takes both and sells you some milk<\/p>\n<p>NAZISM<br \/>\nYou have 2 cows.<br \/>\nThe State takes both and shoots you<\/p>\n<p>BUREAUCRATISM<br \/>\nYou have 2 cows.<br \/>\nThe State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then<br \/>\nthrows the milk away<\/p>\n<p>TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou sell one and buy a bull.<br \/>\nYour herd multiplies, and the economy<br \/>\ngrows.<br \/>\nYou sell them and retire on the income<\/p>\n<p>ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by<br \/>\nyour 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<br \/>\nfor five cows.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nThe public then buys your bull.<\/p>\n<p>SURREALISM<br \/>\nYou have two giraffes.<br \/>\nThe government requires you to take harmonica lessons.<\/p>\n<p>AN AMERICAN CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou sell one, and force the other to<br \/>\nproduce the milk of four cows.<br \/>\nLater, you hire a consultant to analyse why<br \/>\nthe cow has dropped dead.<\/p>\n<p>A GREEK CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows. You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds,<br \/>\ndairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.<br \/>\nYou still only have two cows.<\/p>\n<p>A FRENCH CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three<br \/>\ncows.<\/p>\n<p>A JAPANESE CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce<br \/>\ntwenty times the milk.<br \/>\nYou then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and<br \/>\nmarket it worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>AN ITALIAN CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows,<br \/>\nbut you don&#8217;t know where they are.<br \/>\nYou decide to have lunch.<\/p>\n<p>A SWISS CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.<br \/>\nYou charge the owners for storing them.<\/p>\n<p>A CHINESE CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou have 300 people milking them.<br \/>\nYou claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.<br \/>\nYou arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.<\/p>\n<p>AN INDIAN CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nYou worship them.<\/p>\n<p>A BRITISH CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nBoth are mad.<\/p>\n<p>AN IRAQI CORPORATION<br \/>\nEveryone thinks you have lots of cows.<br \/>\nYou tell them that you have none.<br \/>\nNo-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.<br \/>\nYou still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nBusiness seems pretty good.<br \/>\nYou close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION<br \/>\nYou have two cows.<br \/>\nThe one on the left looks very attractive&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO COWS ~{Matthias Varga} SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour 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 State takes both and shoots you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}