First on the agenda, types of industry to be pursued by us Aspergic types? Bearing in mind that our interests are quite the spectrum.
Self indulgent little joke there, I do apologise.
Now, of course there's online commerce and "industry" such as coding, website design..graphics..media.
But there are also those with a more physical disposition..which is something which I feel must be discussed in greater detail.
First on the agenda, types of industry to be pursued by us Aspergic types? Bearing in mind that our interests are quite the spectrum.
Self indulgent little joke there, I do apologise.
Now, of course there's online commerce and "industry" such as coding, website design..graphics..media.
But there are also those with a more physical disposition..which is something which I feel must be discussed in greater detail.
I think the easiest non-internet industry to set up would be a tourism industry - after all, not every autistic person will want to take the plunge and live on such an island, but plenty would want to escape there for a few weeks...
So I'm thinking accommodation, shops, activities, etc.
I'm pondering the idea of a design studio or something similar..a lab for all the chem monkeys ;p
If Japan can get rich of it's collective intellect, so can we.
Actually, I am going to allow this thread to grow and then later separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak and include other peoples input in my paper.
Tourism could be encouraged by making a very visually appealing society.
Very much so - we'll have to think colours, textures, ambient sounds...
Also thinking that we try to set up specific hallmarks of autistic culture - here I'm thinking restaurant ordering via internet, plenty of emphasis on solo things to do...
Tourists are reccomended to attend the yearly congress of the Antisocialist Party.
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What about an option to come and work for a few months instead of just straight vacation?
Tourism has good and bad parts.
The worst part is that tourism historically employs many people, but low pay. However, I think that selling merchandise might be a step up. The market will probably be small, but it will be there. People come to visit and understand (the island), people buy the merchandise, people remember (the island), people come back. As a living breathing aspie community, we could do worse.
The best part about tourism is that it is not capital intensive, we will not need large amounts of funds to get started.
Hmmmm, I have reached my 100th post, do I get a party?
Anyway, in response to PikaJedi4's comment about NT teenagers, the issue comes in multiple forms, for the size of a community that has been proposed (1,000-10,000), some form of "emergency and municipal services" would be required, from garbage collection, fire and police coverage, to directing tourists. It would depend on the controlling legal authority. And that's a debate for another day.
That does reference my early point made in post #12 (AgentPalpatine), that tourism will be a very labor-intensive base for our economy. Unless we can get wealthy tourists paying out a fortune, it will not pay for a high per-capita income for the residents of the island.
I may come back onboard for the Security/Research areas.
You have been warned ;p
One thing missed off this whole topic:
seed funding
Where would the seed funding come from?
By setting up small local businesses that cater for aspies in every major town and city. We work on a franchise business model, draw up a common business plan, seek backing for venture capitalists and business angels. Firstly - premises in every town and city where we can socialise - but run in the same way as a gentlemans private members club so that licenses aren't hard tocome by. Secondly - that place also sells goods and merchandise to aspies who know that the profits are going to the aufinity project (minus a living wage being drawn by the propriator, and the return to the Business Angel). Like the immigrant community or the Jews - we keep as much as we can 'in house' so the profits benefit us and not the likes of 'Tescos' or 'Asda'.
Alectrum, do you mean that the "club" is the franchised business? I know enough about the service indrustry to advise against that.
I'm not sure what scale you're looking at, but given our small numbers (and that's counting those of us who do not ID themselves as "aspie" or "autie"), I think "every town" might be unfeasable. I like the idea of having an "aspie" social location.