kopetski wrote:
I try to be supporting to people on internet, and that is the only useful thing I can come up with that I do.
I can list a few more.
1. You support people here: that literally saves lives.
2. You remind society to improve. If nobody ever complained there would never be any improvements.
3. You provide a guarantee. Let's say that you are sick and society pays your bills. That provides a guarantee to others that if THEY got sick then THEIR bills would be paid. That creates wealth by encouraging people not to give up.
4. You probably have a special interest. I don't know what it is, but it may have value, e.g. you become a world expert on some little topic and put your knowledge online.
5. You provide variety. Maybe some problem will come up that only an aspie can solve, due to their intense ability to focus and not get distracted by social pressure. Maybe there is some disease that aspies are immune to. Who knows, but it only takes one lucky person to save the world, and since we don't know who that will be or when (it might be in a thousand years), preserving variety is useful for its own sake. (The fact that evolution has not removes autism suggests it might already have a long term value that we don't recognize)
6. You can do useful work in a regular job, if the right job comes along. The fact that the economy has no spare jobs is not your fault. You are still a resource. You are gold waiting to be discovered.
7. Chances are, you already do some kind of work. maybe you only earn two dollars a day? That is all you need to pay your way in an efficient economy. Sorry, but my interest is economics and it bugs me that our current economies are so wasteful that we think we have to earn hundreds just to justify our existence. That's not true. Blame the economy.
8. I'll probably think of some more, but this will do for now.
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06 Apr 2012, 5:32 am
