[Erax]

CAPITALISM EXPLAINED

Ideal Capitalism
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
They multiply and the economy expands.
You sell the herd, become rich and retire.

American Capitalism
You have two cows.
You sell one and make the other one produce four times as much milk.
You're surprised when the cow dies.

French Capitalism
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three.

Canadian Capitalism
You have two cows.
You adopt the American model.
The cows die.
You blame Third World protectionism and adopt some protectionist measures of your own so you can own three cows like the French do.

Japanese Capitalism
You have two cows.
You redesign them to be 1/10th their original size while producing 20 times as much milk.
Then you produce an anime series called "Cowmon" which you export to the rest of the world.

British Capitalism
You have two cows.
Both of them are mad.

German Capitalism
You have two cows.
They produce milk according to a regular schedule, following previously established standards for quantity and quality, in a precise and profitable fashion.
But what you really wanted was to raise pigs.

Russian Capitalism
You have two cows.
You count them and discover you have five.
You count them again and discover you have 42.
You count them again and discover you have 12.
You stop counting and open another bottle of vodka.

Swiss Capitalism
You have 500 cows, but none of them are yours.
You get paid to watch over other people's cows.

Spanish Capitalism
You have two cows and you are very proud of it !

Chinese Capitalism
You have two cows and 300 people milking them.
You claim to have full employment and high productivity.
The guy who leaked the numbers to the press gets arrested.

Hindu Capitalism
You have two cows.
And people had better not touch them.

Argetinean Capitalism
You have two cows.
You try to adopt the American model.
The cows die.
You sell their meat so the IMF can have a year's-end barbecue.

Brazilian Capitalism
You have two cows.
One of them gets stolen.
The government creates a Cow Tax.
An inspector fines you because although you paid the Cow Tax, you should have calculated it accoding to the number of presumed cows, not real cows.
The SRF (Brazilian IRS), also acting on presumed numbers, estimates you own 200 cows.
You give away your remaining cow so the inspector will let you off the hook.

[ September 16, 2003, 17:15: Message edited by: Erax ]