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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