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E-COw-Nomics


SOCIALISM: 社会主义
You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour.


COMMUNISM: 共产主义
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.


FASCISM: 法西斯主义
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.


NAZISM: 纳粹主义
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.


BUREAUCRATISM: 官僚作风
You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away.



TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:传统资本主义
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


MANTONIO-ISM:
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.


AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:
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.


ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM:
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of creditopened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you getall 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 MODEL:
You have two cows. You shred them.


A FRENCH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows


A JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You 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 CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.


AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch.


A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You 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 CORPORATION:
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.


A CHINESE CORPORATION:
You 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.


AN INDIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You worship them.


A BRITISH CORPORATION:
You have two cows. Both are mad.


AN IRAQI CORPORATION:
Everyone 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 AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers tocelebrate.


A CATSKILLS CORPORATION:
You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.


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CIndy Corporation
I have two cows. i re-engineer both of them, make it one boleh produce 'chocolate' milk and another produce 'coffee' milk.


MalAysianism
Kami ada dua ekor lembu. Indian PRaY它, chinese JuAL它(的奶) , malay maKan它.

Comments

Anonymous said…
ur "-ism" very complicated leh...
is tat from ur business course??
if yes, then kesian u le...need to hafal so many "-ism"...
Seen YEe said…
eh.. actually hor... i found it at the poster fair.... then i online search it... they try to explain different types of economic by cow cow kakakaka

very realistic