Traditional corporation
- 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
A Swiss corporation
- You have 5000
- None of them belong to you
- You charge the owners for storing 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 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
A British corporation
- You have two cows
- Both are mad
An Indian corporation
- You have two cows
- You worship them
An Iraqi corporation
- Everyone thinks you 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
An Australian corporation
- You have two cows
- Business seems pretty good
- You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate
An Irish corporation
- You have two cows
- One of them is a horse
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 analyze why the cow has died
An Italian corporation
- You have two cows but you do not know where they are
- You decide to have lunch
A greek corporation
- 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
Communism
- You have two cows
- The State takes both and gives you some milk
Socialism
- You have two cows
- You give one to your neighbor
Fascism
- You have two cows
- The State takes both and sells you some milk
Bureaucratism
- You have two cows
- The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other then throws the milk away
Venture capitalism
- You have two cows
- You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all for 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
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