WantToHaveALife
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Age: 36
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Location: California, United States
25 Sep 2012, 11:19 am
There's nothing 'free' about free enterprise. I learned that one the hard way as a idealistic, intelligent but highly naive university graduate. You eventually come to realize 'capitalism' and 'communism' have much more in common than you might think. Thank God I'm unionized otherwise I would be guilt-tripped into working for peanuts because of all the oxygen I consume. I'm not going to get into a political debate but you quickly realize what you learned in economics class has little bearing on reality. I could never figure out why so many people laughed at my fanatical Libertarian views until a few years ago.
I was told to become essentially an indentured servant in order to stand out from the competition but what happens when everyone does the same thing? On the plus side my experiences have served me well to live in a lower income area and be very well respected. I've been in the trenches and I know unemployed Aspies know more about how the world works than most economists.
hate, despise, loathe this recession, horrible economy we have been in for ages now
25 Sep 2012, 6:14 pm
There's nothing 'free' about free enterprise. I learned that one the hard way as a idealistic, intelligent but highly naive university graduate. You eventually come to realize 'capitalism' and 'communism' have much more in common than you might think. Thank God I'm unionized otherwise I would be guilt-tripped into working for peanuts because of all the oxygen I consume. I'm not going to get into a political debate but you quickly realize what you learned in economics class has little bearing on reality. I could never figure out why so many people laughed at my fanatical Libertarian views until a few years ago.
I was told to become essentially an indentured servant in order to stand out from the competition but what happens when everyone does the same thing? On the plus side my experiences have served me well to live in a lower income area and be very well respected. I've been in the trenches and I know unemployed Aspies know more about how the world works than most economists.
I never did believe the" your under 30 and not a socialist you have not heart and if your over 30 and still one you have no brain."
That saying was invented by some one on wall street I imagine, with out the high street their would be no wall street sometimes people forget this .
This adulation of capital flight capitalists really needs to stop , now
WantToHaveALife
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26 Sep 2012, 4:34 pm
26 Sep 2012, 9:46 pm
WantToHaveALife
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26 Sep 2012, 11:20 pm
27 Sep 2012, 11:22 pm
30 Sep 2012, 9:45 pm
02 Oct 2012, 9:12 am
Yes it bloody is. I'm so high-functioning, can look after myself, can go out and do things on my own (anxiety makes it hard, but I still can do it), but when it comes to work it seems I lack the most important skill for everything.
This is another reason why I hate having AS - it's such a weird condition. You're able...but then you're not. 
That then confuses the government, and they're unsure whether to let you claim for ESA or incapacity or DLA, because spiers go ''well if she's able to get a bus on her own, she must be able to do anything, so if we let her claim any of these things, she will be a fraud.''
Aspiewordsmith
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Location: United Kingdom, England, Berkshire, Reading
06 Feb 2019, 4:20 pm
I haven't had work for 16 years and that was because I set up that organisation myself from 2001-03. The job I had to apply for I got but that was due to me being the only applicant and that was some kind of advocacy worker. I put a lot of effort into that job and worked on it for about 60 hours a week. All I got out of that was about £20 a week and some former social worker used to come in and provide a little advice for the others and kept telling me 'we should be expecting more from you'. I didn't really enjoy it at all but I didn't hate it either. The job description was working under pressure (code for being bullied) I never had self worth at all. I have done voluntary work before which I really didn't enjoy. It didn't give me a feeling of self worth. It also doesn't pay anything or was conducive to life but was work experience. Not really motivating because since 1991 I have had anhedonia which means I don't feel pleasure or find anything rewarding but only done that including the advocacy stuff because if I didn't I would have been accused of being lazy. I do not have the ability to make money anywhere online or other way even though I have tried in the past it is like having the opposite of the Midas touch. The ability to make money is a major weakness of mine and especially this is crucial since Universal Credit is just around the corner in the UK. I am really up the creek without a paddle as so to speak especially at 52 years old I now feel that I was definitely born 24 years too early. If I applied for work the usual way then I would be turned down for any job that pays more than £20 a week but would be considered lucky to get an interview. When I was a teenager and into my 20s I knew exactly what I wanted to do but that didn't work out and now I don''t know since I have no marketable skills 
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