I hear there's 80% unemployment for we Autistics.

So much for the idea that the Nazis tried to make more autistic people because we're better workers.

Maybe in a different world, accepting of our different ways outside a very narrow conformity, it could be so. Irony. Heh.

So far, since self diagnosis, and formal diagnosis, I've mostly had abuse, rather than support. This functioning country stuff sounds very appealing.

Plumbing would still be a job without capitalism. Actually, come to think about it, plumbing is just about the least capitalist job there is. Most plumbers are small businesses owned by the laborers. Plumbing products are all mass produced, but the actual plumber is valued for their skills, not because they have the capital to corner a market. Plumbers in areas where corporate conglomerates are common are usually protected by unions, too.

If you want a job that wouldn't exist without capitalism, the answer is farmer. Sure, farmers are the backbone of any society, but farmers work the land, and the land has a lot of conditions. But you can buy avocados in Michigan in January, because someone realized that they can make money shipping avocados from warmer climates year round. It's terrible for the land, terrible for the environment, and terrible for local farmers who cannot compete in the race to the bottom, but the capitalist cares not for these things. Only profit nourishes the soul of the corporation.

[Stealing] is literally the social infrastructure that allows it.

Corrected your illiteracy.

We need organization, certification, and oversight of projects.

A random assortment of freelance hobbyists is very different than a horizontally organized Plumber's union.

UBI is not the solution, ending the capitalist system is.

All UBI does is lessen the suffering slightly, why not just directly meet people’s needs without the middleman.

I would implement an Universal Wage Cap, and Universal Basic Products and Services.

The first doesn't allow to earn above certain point, everything beyond that gets taxed.

The second one ensures that people don't need to pay for their most basic needs.

You support UBI because it would create an utopia

I support UBI because it would literally destroy the economy

We are not the same

It wouldn't destroy the economy, just the shareholders profit.

And that is the risk they signed up for.

It wouldn't decrease profits in any way, in fact it'd bolster them temporarily given how everyone has more money to spend. Companies will respond in turn to bump up their prices, negating any kind of increase in purchasing power (what happens every time minimum wages get increased), and once everything catches up and it becomes the new "normal", profit rates will continue to drop as they always have.

Meanwhile the states will bleed money paying everyone UBI and go in debt even faster which would result in austerity, abolishment of UBI, or more excuses to cut other welfare programs. There's a reason why there are pretty much no welfare states anymore.

People who create and upload torrents

I mean sure it's illegal, but it's a hell of a lot of unpaid work for an uncaring and often ungrateful consumers. You have to rip the Blu-ray, compress it to a standardized size, package it with file lists in some cases, put the appropriate metadata in the torrent and filename, then seed it for years at great personal risk.

I know much of that can be automated, but still...

It's one of those things I'd love to see done as an experiment as long as it could be done ethically. Build a little town somewhere and have no prescribed jobs, just let everyone do what they want and see how it pans out.

Another one I'd like to see is to have two areas as identical as possible - same geography, climate, resources etc. and populate one fully with left-wing people and one with right-wing people and see which one does better. Unfetterd Socialist Utopia vs Unrestricted Ayn Rand Libertarian Boot-strappery or whatever. Settle it once and for all lol.

It’s one of those things I’d love to see done as an experiment

I believe you've got a fantastic idea here, not only to see how this one idea pans out, but to learn how we might build a better society. There's little reason we couldn't simultaneously have multiple test centres, each using a different system. Scientific method 101.

China famously began its modern transformation in the 80s by creating Special Economic Zones. These were cities where many of the economic rules for the rest of the country wouldn't apply, and where new theories could be tested. There's no need to agree with the goals China was pursuing, and for-better-or-for-worse have subsequently achieved, to acknowledge the method is brutally effective.