You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them, when you can milk them or even pays you not to milk them. It decides what price you sell the milk. Then, it takes a third of the profit, gives it to "its friends" ! Both make millions and you and your cows soon starve to death.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
World Ideologies with reference to cows
(A humorous way to describe some of the worlds existing and erstwhile ideologies)
Feudalism:
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Pure Socialism:
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk.
Bureaucratic Socialism:
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
Fascism:
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Pure Communism:
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need." Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
(Erstwhile) Soviet Communism:
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika:
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
Cambodian Communism:
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
Dictatorship:
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
Pure Democracy:
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Representative Democracy:
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
Bureaucracy:
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
Capitalism:
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.
Pure Anarchy:
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
Anarcho-Capitalism:
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
India's Crony Capitalism:
Surrealism:
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.