If the world became smart overnight

90% of it's population would realize how useless they are, and how, their not being there, would benefit the condition of the world, and kill themselves.

Then the remaining inhabitants would agree to breed once each life-time, every 40 years.

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The sad fact is that people are easily manipulated idiots. They buy what's advertised most aggressively, not what's really useful to them. If there weren't regulations for things like seat belts in cars, people would probably rather spend their money on a leopard pattern steering wheel cover if Tom Cruise told them that's the cool thing to have right now.

Obviously I'm not in favor of the government deciding what people should have and what they need, because we've already seen how hard those countries failed.

But you have to admit even though capitalism does pretty good compared to other systems (except on those days when the stock market blows up because somebody discovered that all the virtual money doesn't really exist) it probably wastes A LOT of energy on completely irrelevant shit and isn't really THAT good at sorting out retards.