In my understanding, a cult is hard to leave. For the town I want to start, anyone can walk out at any time. They can to take a chunk of money with them, determined by what jobs they worked and how long.
Cooperative communities exist in USA and around the world and can be nice places to live. Most are based on religion or ideologies like permaculture or veganism. I want to live in a secular cooperative community that prioritizes quality of life. It's how I imagine human societies could be 200 years in the future. We already have a post-scarcity economy, it's just unequally distributed.
Many people give up the ability to walk to live in suburbs. I'm willing to give up the ability to be rich to live in a nice city.
It requires (although implicitly) that everybody in your family also sign up. And it certainly doesn't sound like a place in which visitors are welcome. Also: what if there isn't enough work to go around for your mandatory minimum work amounts? What if the citizens (and jobs that need doing) aren't all perfectly spherical entities that are interchangeable?
In my understanding, a cult is hard to leave. For the town I want to start, anyone can walk out at any time. They can to take a chunk of money with them, determined by what jobs they worked and how long.
Cooperative communities exist in USA and around the world and can be nice places to live. Most are based on religion or ideologies like permaculture or veganism. I want to live in a secular cooperative community that prioritizes quality of life. It's how I imagine human societies could be 200 years in the future. We already have a post-scarcity economy, it's just unequally distributed.
Many people give up the ability to walk to live in suburbs. I'm willing to give up the ability to be rich to live in a nice city.