Are the American people obsolete?

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

by zoowar • 15 years ago

23 9 15 years ago

zdw• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years 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

DrJokepu• 15 years ago

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

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

bhousel• 15 years ago

I think it can be said, more generally, that nationalism is obsolete..

oofoe• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years 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• 15 years ago

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

Are the American people obsolete?

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