{"id":718,"date":"2006-01-25T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=718"},"modified":"2006-10-09T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T09:28:54","slug":"716-of-2006-world-economic-forum-main-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"[716] Of 2006 World Economic Forum main discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a> going on <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/economics\">(tag)<\/a>, let&#8217;s all be honest to ourselves and call a spade a spade. In reality, the world economy works like this:<\/p>\n<p>Americans do the research and create something new.<\/p>\n<p>Australians praise American ingenuity.<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Asians accuse Australians of sucking up and then look at Japan for help.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese innovate and make something better.<\/p>\n<p>Germans introduce an efficient plan to produce it.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese make it at almost no cost.<\/p>\n<p>Arabs supply the fuel and some verbal abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Israelis complain about the abuses.<\/p>\n<p>French and Brits talk about it, end up arguing with each other and then do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Europeans undertake extended holidays even when they&#8217;re supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody else goes to work and then discovers that they need to call customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Indians fill all call centers and take care of customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Latin Americans refuse to believe what&#8217;s going on and party instead.<\/p>\n<p>Africans don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on and get fucked.<\/p>\n<p>At the World Economic Forum, the people there are trying to find out how the Africans are getting fucked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Economic Forum going on (tag), let&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}