TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM:

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* You have two sheep.

* You sell one and buy a ram.

* Your flock multiplies, and the economy grows.

* You sell them and retire on the income.


AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION: (or education sector!)

* You have two sheep.

* You sell one, and force the other to produce the wool of four sheep.

* You are surprised when the sheep drops dead.


A FRENCH CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* You go on strike because you want three sheep.


A JAPANESE CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary sheep and produce 20 times the wool.

* You then create clever sheep cartoon images called Sheepkimon and market them worldwide.


A GERMAN CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and shear themselves.


A BRITISH CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* Both die from foot and mouth.


AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep, but you don't know where they are.

* You break for lunch.


A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* You count them and learn you have five sheep.

* You count them again and learn you have 42 sheep.

* You count them again and learn you have 12 sheep.

* You stop counting sheep and open another bottle of vodka.


A SWISS CORPORATION:

* You have 5,000 sheep, none of which belong to you.

* You charge others for storing them.


A CHINESE CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* You have 300 people shearing them.

* You claim full employment, high productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.


A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION:

* You have two sheep.

* That one on the left is kinda cute
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