You
have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
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
all the milk you need.
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.
You
have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and
sells you the milk.
You
have two cows. Your neighbours help you take care of them, and you all share
the milk.
You
share two cows with your neighbours. You and your neighbours 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.
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.
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.
You
have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
You
have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
You
have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is
banned.
You
have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.
You
have two cows. Your neighbours pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
You
have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and they go mad. The government
doesn't do anything.
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.
You
have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbours try
to take the cows and kill you.
You
have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
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.
You
have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
You
are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo
centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less
valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
Enron 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. He then executes
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 your CFO 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
six more.
Now do you see why a company with $62 billion in assets is declaring bankruptcy?