Are the American people obsolete?

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

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

[DrJokepu]

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

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

[zdw]

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...

[bhavin]

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

[oofoe]

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

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

[bhousel]

I think it can be said, more generally, that nationalism is obsolete..

[DanI-S]

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.

[grav1tas]

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.

[clp16]

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.