Are the American people obsolete?(salon.com)

http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/07/27/american_people_obsolete

8 comments

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

DrJokepu15 anni fa

news.arc seems to trim apostrophes from URLs, so your link correctly is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines

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zdw15 anni fa

Wow, what a dream world... "Hi, all you 'little people' who don't have jobs? Go to China and compete there, so I can enjoy this empty country and my immigrant labor"

Time to get cracking on methods to replace that class of people with small shell scripts...

bhavin15 anni fa

As they say, fifth time is a charm!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615

oofoe15 anni fa

Perhaps the poor could also furnish infants for the rich man's table?

I see that the spirit of Swift is alive and well...

bhousel15 anni fa

I think it can be said, more generally, that nationalism is obsolete..

DanI-S15 anni fa

It reminds me of the sci-fi concept of creating hyper-intelligent, benevolent AIs to run human life as optimally as possible. That's basically what capitalism attempts to do, except with hyper-wealth in place of hyper-intelligence.

As anyone who reads sci-fi knows, it's never long before the AIs figure out they can get along most 'optimally' without the humans there at all.

grav1tas15 anni fa

I may be wrong, but hasn't this article already come up on HN before? Maybe I've just seen it before, it's not new.

clp1615 anni fa

I mean people aren't going to take a cut in the standard of living, and has that been to social contract all this time? That sounds like some plebeian system. I thought it was trying to equalize tax "burden", not some creepy subsidization program.