RyansWorld: Disability pension

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Disability pensions will become obsolete by the 2030s thanks to advantages in genetic, robotics, and nanotechnology. Prior to that decade, pensioners received free medical, dental, prescriptions, and vision care for not working. Parents and spouses of pensioners often attributed their dependent son/daughter/husband/wife's pension to "God's will," stating there was nothing either they or the one that is receiving caregiver support can do to have a job or start their own business.

[edit] Termination of disability pensions

By the 2030s, autism will eradicated worldwide, as the formerly mentally disabled leave their anti-psychotic medications and automatic government money and pursue high paying jobs at places like Toyota and other major Fortune 500 companies. While disability pension have allowed the disabled to become parents and have dependents of their own, they could not own a house and were dependent on their government landlords to give them a 99-year lease so that they could have a house in the suburbs like parents without autism. In most cases, a disability pension was not granted without a legal guardian, making marriage a more complicated process than with people that rely on employment for their source of income.

But as more autistics received the amino acid cure and more handicapped people could afford stem cell search, governments decided to spend money that was being spent on social assistance programs elsewhere. These governments of the future (extremely liberal by today's standards but rather conservative by the standards of the 2030s) decided to develop new and massive employment programs in addition to maintaining the new maglev train tracks. The new governments will also bring back sexual education in junior high schools for the post-rock generation whose parents were never taught sexual education beyond simple abstinence lectures.

[edit] Precedents

The apparently debilitating illness, Wikipedia:Tourettes Syndrome, that causes involuntary 'ticks' does not prevent people taking on highly skilled jobs as described in Oliver Sack's 'An Anthropologist on Mars'.

In Sack's view the disabilities are part of a spectrum of human mentality.