Wednesday, January 25, 2006
[716] Of 2006 World Economic Forum main discussion
With the World Economic Forum going on , let's all be honest to ourselves and call a spade a spade. In reality, the world economy works like this:

Americans do the research and create something new.

Australians praise American ingenuity.

Southeast Asians accuse Australians of sucking up and then look at Japan for help.

Japanese innovate and make something better.

Germans introduce an efficient plan to produce it.

Chinese make it at almost no cost.

Arabs supply the fuel and some verbal abuses.

Israelis complain about the abuses.

French and Brits talk about it, end up arguing with each other and then do nothing.

Europeans undertake extended holidays even when they're supposed to work.

Everybody else goes to work and then discovers that they need to call customer service.

Indians fill all call centers and take care of customer service.

Latin Americans refuse to believe what's going on and party instead.

Africans don't know what's going on and get fucked.

At the World Economic Forum, the people there are trying to find out how the Africans are getting fucked.
12:29 EST | (3) Comments

Lol, great description of the world economy in a nutshell! :P We South-East Asian used to occupy China's present niche, but no longer. We better start finding ourselves a new niche, less we end up with the same fate as the Latin Americans or even regress back to be like the present Africans.

By sigma, at 25 January, 2006 18:40  


This immediately reminded me of the following joke:
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was:"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure...
In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.
In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.
In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant.
In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.
In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant.
In South America they didn't know what "please" meant.
And in the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant

By johnleemk, at 26 January, 2006 05:05  


hahaha..

By Desparil, at 26 January, 2006 22:54  


                   
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