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If you don't like your national benefit scheme and can't get it changed at the ballot box, I find it difficult to imagine you'll have the political capital for genocide. Fortunately (for this view), people eliminate themselves one way or another all the time.

I don't think the OP has a very good grasp of economics. Specifically, what economists mean by 'full employment' and the concept of a wage/price inflation spiral.

If you have very high levels of employment employers find it difficult to recruit new staff because they already have a job. In the 1950's in Britain despite having to pay off massive war debts and having huge numbers of disabled people from two world wars, the unemployment rate was about 1%.

The problem that arises from this situation is as follows.

Company A wishes to expand, it needs new staff but there isn't a large enough pool of unemployed workers to find the right skills in. Company A must poach an employee off another company by offering the employee more money than he currently receives.

Unfortunately this now means that Company B is short one worker and must poach an employee, etc etc This leads to a large amount of wage inflation. Because companies must be profitable, in order to pay these higher wages the company must put up the price of it's goods to avoid bankruptcy. Workers see the price of goods going up and demand higher wages to maintain their spending power. The higher wages mean companies have to put up the price of their finished product again and the economy ends up locked into wage-price inflation spiral. Fairly quickly in a free market system this inflation destroys economic growth and causes a recession, driving up unemployment.

You can not have a free market economic system without a large pool of unemployed people competing for jobs to keep wages down. This is not some radical hippy conspiracy theory, it is week one Introduction to Economics stuff.

Seriously, go and ask any economist to explain the terms 'full employment' and 'wage-price spiral' and they will tell you exactly the same thing.

What this means is it is pointless trying to tackle unemployment by killing unemployed people, the market will simply create more unemployed people to stabilise itself.

If you abandon the free market system it is a relatively easy task to provide 100% employment but doing so bogs down innovation and progress.

You have Aspergers, you can be eliminated. Have fun with your own plan where you're eligible to be eliminated.

I find it interesting that there seemed to be a "change of attitude" towards Aspies when the world economy went bonk. Previously we were these fascinatingly eccentric people with amazing talents - maybe the NTs are "blaming us" for the way things have gone? There's even be a "hint" that Universoty lecturers should be "assessed". Research 'Autism strategy groups' and the Autism Act 2009 ... it gets "scary".