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Are the American people obsolete?

23 points by zoowar 16y ago

zdw 16y ago
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...
grav1tas 16y ago
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.
redacted 16y ago
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
- DrJokepu 16y ago
  news.arc seems to trim apostrophes from URLs, so your link correctly is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
- deleted 16y ago
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bhousel 16y ago
I think it can be said, more generally, that nationalism is obsolete..
oofoe 16y ago
Perhaps the poor could also furnish infants for the rich man's table? I see that the spirit of Swift is alive and well...
clp16 16y ago
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.
DanI-S 16y ago
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.
bhavin 16y ago
As they say, fifth time is a charm! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615

23 points by zoowar 16y ago

zdw 16y ago

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...

grav1tas 16y ago

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.

redacted 16y ago

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines

DrJokepu 16y ago
news.arc seems to trim apostrophes from URLs, so your link correctly is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
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bhousel 16y ago

I think it can be said, more generally, that nationalism is obsolete..

oofoe 16y ago

Perhaps the poor could also furnish infants for the rich man's table? I see that the spirit of Swift is alive and well...

clp16 16y ago

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.

DanI-S 16y ago

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.

bhavin 16y ago

As they say, fifth time is a charm! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1604933 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553937 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991615