{"id":5339,"date":"2014-04-05T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:28:22","slug":"two-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=5339","title":{"rendered":"Two Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that you have heard the metaphors that use the example of two cows to explain various political and economic theories. Here is an example from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You_have_two_cows\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white;color: #252525;font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px;margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding: 0px\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socialism\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Socialism\">Socialism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Communism\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Communism\">Communism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then gives you some milk.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascism\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Fascism\">Fascism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then sells you some milk.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capitalism\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Capitalism\">Capitalism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazism\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"Nazism\">Nazism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. The Government takes both and shoots you.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.1em\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Deal\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none\" title=\"New Deal\">New Dealism<\/a><\/i>: You have two cows. The Government takes both, shoots one, buys milk from the other cow, then pours the milk down the drain.<sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-7\" style=\"line-height: 1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/You_have_two_cows#cite_note-7\" style=\"background-image: none;background-position: initial initial;background-repeat: initial initial;color: #0b0080;text-decoration: none;white-space: nowrap\">[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAnd here is a site. <a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/\">visual.ly<\/a> with a whole lot more that are really funny.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been fascinated by a graphic on a wall in Toronto. It&#8217;s just outside a restaurant on King St. and it features two cows. Here it is &#8211;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEirhmhiFyvNsUmGS5NKewDcFzKesCKWfGIMrY0yDTOXWtC2t1hk1oTRKPbocDoCYKiKoN9RAW7NMgwisuPPmkPwNMw3nAyWH6g1OXzYZKkTB8ezoYBe42Xj729Vw9k9a7XW24toPg\/s1600\/two+cows.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEirhmhiFyvNsUmGS5NKewDcFzKesCKWfGIMrY0yDTOXWtC2t1hk1oTRKPbocDoCYKiKoN9RAW7NMgwisuPPmkPwNMw3nAyWH6g1OXzYZKkTB8ezoYBe42Xj729Vw9k9a7XW24toPg\/s1600\/two+cows.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThis really needs a caption!!<\/p>\n<p>It may, also, be a metaphor for small businesses everywhere. They often don&#8217;t know whether they are coming or going, but they are unique, one of a kind enterprises and they need to be fostered!!<\/p>\n<p>Have a whimsical day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that you have heard the metaphors that use the example of two cows to explain various political and economic theories. Here is an example from Wikipedia. Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}