Have you ever read the satire: You have two cows?
I came to this through a shred posting on Linked in, tried to trace the origin, and ended up with a posting in NewstalkZB from way back in 2015. The satire itself has been in existence 1935 and has had so many versions. It has evolved through out times, depending on how the need to use the analogy arises.
According to Wikipedia, the history of his analogy was such:
“You have two cows”
Socialism: If you have two cows, the Government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
Communism: If you have two cows, Government takes both and then gives you some milk.
Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the Government; then the government sells you some milk.
New Dealism: If you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain.
Nazism: If you have two cows, the Government shoots you and keeps the cows.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.
Bill Sherk mentions that such lists circulated throughout the United States since around 1936 under the title “Parable of the Isms”.[2] A column in The Chicago Daily Tribune in 1938 attributes a version involving socialism, communism, fascism and New Dealism[nb 1] to an address by Silas Strawn to the Economic Club of Chicago on 29 November 1935.[3]
The list on NewstalkZB is longer. It shows the analogies per country.
My favorite one though is venture capitalism:
You have Two Cows
I finally understand how I ended up to where and what I am right now. After more than 5 decades…
Reassessing my economical status in life, now I know I should have poured more effort into being a venture capitalist.
I should have assessed, own or not own, do another turnaround on the cow or cows that I never actually own in full anyway, take money out from all different institutes, including from the government, who normally bleeds the consumers to death. I could have used the opportunity to gain from something almost non-existent or was just a partial capital. Unfortunately, it is a talent that I never had and an imagination that is too much for my tired and lazy brain to comprehend or even to come up with.
Although I wish so much that I were a Traditional Capitalist myself, I think I am actually or I lean towards being a Socialist.
In any case, a cow seems to be the solution to the economy.
Well, this cow, is becoming old, tired and saggy. This cow has finally succumbed to the gravity of its biological nature. It is slowly ageing away. This cow is almost at the end of the long, never-ending tunnel where there seems to be no light. And yet it still continuous to crawl and fight its way in the corporate political bullshit. This cow will work harder for much longer because this cow feels the need to carry the burden of the responsibility that life has dropped on it since birth.
This cow is just slowly waiting for the very day it has finally reached it’s limit. When this cow can finally say: enough is enough! This cow needs to also enjoy the fruits of the hardships it has gone through. This cow will drink all the milk it has saved up.