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Transcript of …EXPLAINED USING COWS!. Advantages: protects individual rights, input is taken from many different...
Advantages: protects individual rights, input is taken from many different sources, people elect their government
Disadvantages: takes more time to make decisions, more costly
Examples: Canada, Japan, Australia
You have two cows. After milking your cows, you and your
neighbors all vote on who should get the milk. Majority rules!
Advantages: organized and efficient; there are no public protests or riots
Disadvantages: limited individual rights, uncertain transition of power, usually dependent on the military, no debate, no free press, no opposition parties
Examples: Sudan, North Korea, VenezuelaSynonyms: dictatorship, authoritarianism
You have two cows.The Supreme Leader orders the military to take
the cows, and gives you nothing for themIf you complain about it, they put you in jail, draft
you into the army, or shoot you
Advantages: stable, controlled, traditional, unifying Disadvantages: No criteria (other than birth) for
ruling, expensive, monarch is remote from everyday people, limited individual rights, no voting
Examples: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Monaco
You have two cows.The monarch, who just happens to have been
born into the right family, makes you give him ½ the milk so he can get it for free
If you complain, the monarch will take both your cows and the milk.
Advantages: if a law needs to be passed that will benefit the people, it can be passed very quickly. Control is centralized.
Disadvantages: complete loss of individual rights & freedoms
Example: Italy under Benito Mussolini
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk
If you disagree, they send in soldiers to shoot either you or your cows
You join an underground resistance group
Advantages: All members of the economy share benefits. High level of services
Disadvantages: High taxes, lack of incentives to work hard
Examples: Sri Lanka, Holland, Denmark.
You have two cowsThe government makes you give one to your
neighbour, so that you are both equalYou get to keep one glass of milk each day, but
you have to give the rest of the milk to the government
Advantages: In times of need, everyone gets their fair share (slogan: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need”)
Disadvantages: very limited political freedoms, lack of individual rights
Examples: China, Russia (pre 1991), Vietnam, Cuba
Advantages: unity, no debates over religion, punishments for offences are usually clear, citizens tend to be obedient
Disadvantages: No separation between church and state, some citizens forced to express beliefs against their will
Examples: Vatican City is a theocratic state.
You have two cows. The government tells you that if you want to
keep your cows and continue farming, you have to follow the religion of the leaders.
Advantages—individuals can do whatever they want without interference from the government, no taxes
Disadvantages—no government services are provided, people are left to fend for themselves
Examples: Parts of the Congo and Somalia are near a state of anarchy. In many instances, warlords are ruling portions of the nations.
You have two cows. Power hungry thugs (formerly your
neighbours) come to steal them and kill you and your whole family
There are no laws or police to protect you.
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.Life is good.
You have two cows.
You feed them sheep’s brains and they go mad.
The government doesn't do anything.
Go away! What I do with my cows is my own business.
Actually, I pretty much let the cows do whatever they want anyway…
You are associated with* two differently- aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of a non-specified gender.
* the concept of “ownership” is a symbol of our elitist, warmongering, intolerant past
a modern movement in art and literature that tries to express unusual things in the subconscious mind
Example: Salvador Dali