{"id":1262,"date":"2025-04-16T17:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T17:48:46","slug":"lessons-in-government-and-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/lessons-in-government-and-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Government and Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copyable-text\" data-pre-plain-text=\"[15:54, 09\/04\/2025] Jose Marcio: \">\n<p>This content comes from old Internet days : 1990s<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">FEUDALISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. <\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">SOCIALISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else&rsquo;s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. <\/span> <span class=\"x1lliihq\"> The government gives you as much milk as you need. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\"><strong>BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else&rsquo;s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. <\/span> <span class=\"x1lliihq\"> 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. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\"><strong>FASCISM<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">to take care of them, and sells you the milk. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">MARXIST COMMUNISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">them, and you all share the milk.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">RUSSIAN COMMUNISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\"> You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">the government takes all the milk. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. The government takes both and <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">shoots you. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">PURE DEMOCRACY<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">milk. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">you who gets the milk. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">BUREAUCRACY<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. At first the government regulates what <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"> <span class=\"x1lliihq\">PURE ANARCHY<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price <\/span><span class=\"x1lliihq\">or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. <\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">ANARCHO-CAPITALISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. <\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"_akbu\"><strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">SURREALISM<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"_ao3e selectable-text copyable-text\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"x1lliihq\">You have two giraffes. 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Your lord takes some of the milk. SOCIALISM You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else&rsquo;s cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-non-classe","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jose-marcio.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}