This explains everything -who needs economics!

[Maccachic]

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows
The State takes both and gives you some milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

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

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5,000 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.
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.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive.

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

[Moses Opondo]

In this case Socialism comes out as very humane.

[eri]

socialism is very humane

it's such a pity it's an unsustainable system brought down by the base human instincts of greed and laziness

and that socialists are too short sighted to see that

ie

you have 2 cows

you give 1 to your neighbor

now you have 1 cow each

you work your fields, eat your vegetables, tend your cow and drink it's milk

he eats his cow

now there is only 1 cow

and he wants half

so you kill your cow cut it up and give half to him

for a short time you have steak with your vegetables

he just has steak

no one has milk

so soon enough he's run out of steak and wants some of yours

you can see where this is leading

you working your butt off to support his lazy ass

so 1 night you slip away to a new village

where they don't practice socialism

at least that's been the experience

of any society that continues to take from the worker

and give to the non-worker

[Perry]

The only flaw I see is with this part of the hypothesis:

you have 2 cows
you give 1 to your neighbor
now you have 1 cow each

. . . is that the 'giving' of the cow would not be.
The socialists would forcibly take it off the two-
cow man and give it to his neighbour.

[Voyles]

I couldn't stop laughing at the Greek cow owners! Too funny!