How would Autistics fare under Anarcho Capitalism?

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terrible, just like everybody else.

Those with Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism would likely be equivalent to neurotypicals in terms of the meritocratic "equality of opportunity" (there is a heated discourse amongst libertarians whether this advances the cause of individual liberty) principle in the private education system and corporate sector. Those severely affected on the spectrum would mainly be supported by voluntary funded, church-based charities in a society without the welfare state where their family members in middle class to lower socioeconomic class backgrounds can't afford all the medical interventions (no Medicare or single payer funded health-care system) necessitous for them to be cared for.

Aspies and Higher Functioning Autists could administrate their own businesses and clubs e.t.c. while only allowing their own neurotype or maybe another neurodivergence (Dyslexia, Synesthesia, Hyperlexia, Giftedness e.t.c) to work or uphold membership (neurotypicals not allowed), as voluntary association (also known as freedom of association) is one of the core principles in libertarian theory associated with the Misesian and Rothbardian traditions. However, they would just be as likely to fail as neurotypicals in a world with an unregulated and unbridled corporate financial sector where the moneylenders (usurious financial practices would be completely legal) and the international banking cabal can manipulate the stock markets (even further in the most irrepressible way they do now), usurp everyone of their property, and crypto-colonize sovereign nations even more. This was one of the reasons I abandoned Right-Libertarianism after two years. In addition there is a very negative stereotypical, and scientifically groundless connotation with an autistic adhering to an Anarcho-Capitalist philosophy and the fedora wearing, neck-bearded, basement dwelling, crypto-bitcoiner and "rationalist" pseudo-skeptic types. One of the most insinuating and vexatious ways to disparage autistic people.

Former Libertarian Minarchist, now an Independent and activist for monetary reform (Bradbury Pound).

We would be so dead.

I don't think we would do well as a group. You are after all talking about free markets and capitalism unrestrained by laws. You're talking about private services that offer subscriptions for public service like the fire brigades used to do during the 19th century. Your house could be burning down but if you hadn't paid your subscription, the fire brigade would actually let your house burn as a rather pointed lesson. Sometimes competing brigades would show up and the two fire companies would get into a fight. On other occasions a fire company would show up and ask if you wanted a subscription with a bonus surcharge since a fire was already in progress. I've heard that sometimes, a fire brigade would set a fire just to generate business.

I think we all benefit from structure. Anarchy has no structure.

Without laws, unscrupulous business owners could put chalk in their flour to stretch it. Meat processors wouldn't worry about food safety and sanitation. Vendors could sell "medicine" that was anything but.

Without laws, consumers wouldn't have the ability to sue the aforementioned businesses. Riots would start that would be brutally suppressed by mercenaries or thugs on retainer to these businesses. I think a world like this would favor the strong and ruthless. Mob bosses and warlords would rise. The rest of us would become little more than debt slaves or peons.

Badly. In such a world a lot of good skills would go to waste.

Those who couldn't get jobs would be left to starve in the streets.

Why do you say that?

You cannot have Anarchy and capitalism. Capitalism is private property rights guaranteed by the state, without the state to guarantee rights it becomes a society based upon violence. Warlords would seize wealth and enslave people, this has been the norm throughout history and autistic people would most likely be a bigger target for violence.

No welfare state at all just survival of the fittest. This type of system is thrive or die. It would be like the world of the Hunger Games.


True. I think autistics would be hunted as "subhumans" or whatever the label for inferior people may be called.

I think Anarchy is just nothing more than the grand scale version of the statement "evil thrives when good people do nothing".

You cannot have anarchy at all. If the government disbanded today then tomorrow warlords or mafia dons would form the new government. Nature abhors a power vacuum.

Indeed. And the only inevitable result of that situation is hell on earth.

Very, VERY badly, unless they have a special skill they can somehow do significantly better than a kid in an underdeveloped, cheap country, or if they can be forced into physical labour.

I work in the private sector, and have quite high responsibilities in a big company, and can ensure you that if it wasn't for states and other public actors, the great majority of people would live in terrible conditions, like in Britain in the 19th century or in sweatshops in South-East Asia right now. Sprinkle private militias and no food, medication, water etc quality control, and you've got a recipe for disaster for everyone, neurotypical and autistic alike.

Well, unless you're the autistical child of a millionnaire, of course.

How do you think Autistics would fare under Anarcho-Syndicalism? I think it would be a lot better or even worse.

Anarchy cannot be anything other than Anarchy. There can be no Anarcho-communism, no Anarcho-capitalism or Anarcho-syndicalism. When you remove the government and the legal rights that come with it then the only law is the law of violence.

I think Libertarian Capitalism would be pretty good. What do you think?