Financial-Relationships

Most of the Builders would expect to make the usual amounts of Money, like about One-Third, to One-Half, which would normally be forthcoming, in the form of Profit.

This would be in return for Designing the Homes, and in Helping to Build, the various Different-Sized Homes, with a Crew that works hard and gets paid. 

Right. The Incentives all have to be in place. But someone has to come up with the Initial-Funds, to Buy the Materials. 

 

Who will Dig-Deep into their own Pockets, to Buy the First-Load of Building-Materials? The Builders will have to come up, with Enough-Money, to Buy the First-Load of Building-Materials, and other expenses.

 

But then they will need to be Reimbursed, as we go, by the Money-Goddess, after the Receipts have been presented. But then after each of the Jobs have been completed, then they will get their One-Third or more in Profit, as the Designer/Builder. 

 

That kind of Profit is not out of line, in the Building-Trades. But the Builder has to have the Seed-Money, to buy the First-Load, of Building-Materials. 

 

We have to have some Seed-Money, just to get started, and to get through that First-Week. And that is what we mean, by Sustainable-Capitalism. Making the Money Work, for the People, who do the Creative-Work, to begin with, using our own Money. 

In a Fantasy-World everyone makes the Same-Money, but not so in the Real-World.  But a Good-Worker, who has Many-Skills, might make a lot more than a Decent-Worker, with No-Skills. 

And so we have to get the Incentives-Right, but if we do, then that will Create-Jobs, and that will help to Support our Local BioRegional-Economy. 

Getting any of these very Basic-Financial-Relationships Wrong will just lead to Failure and Collapse, which was Just-Barely-Averted, at the Farm, in Tennessee. - T

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Hard-Decisions

 We should not want the New-People, to gut the Equity in their Homes. Right. 

The New-People should have Responsibilities, to Gaia, and to the Homesteaders, and to all the other Land-Stewards, to do their part, to Uphold the Plan. But what is a Land-Steward?

A Land-Steward would be someone, who has paid off their Homesteads, or who has put a lot of Time and Energy into the Community. 

If everyone in the Community guts the Equity in their Homes, then some of them will Sink-Underwater, and then they could be foreclosed upon. Yes. And that could Hurt Gaia, and All the Others, as well as the Land-Stewards. 

Some-People would not be willing to continue, to make Payments on the Homesteads, when they may appear to be temporarily worth a little bit less, on the market, than they owe on it, which might be partly because of their Home-Equity Loans, which have increased the amounts they owe on it. 

But when you Gut the Equity in the Land, you Gut the Earth. And then the Banks will own most of the Homes, and all of the Farms. We saw this happen in 2008. 

And then we might see a lot of Vacant-Homes, which have been foreclosed upon, by the Banks, and they could become Crack-Houses. And that could ruin the Whole-Community. 

We might have to become Prepared, to make some very Hard-Decisions, to Secure the Land, and to Protect our Collective-Self, from having to deal, with anything like that. Why should we leave Our Wonderful-Community Exposed, to Outside Market-Pressures? 

The Dollar may be collapsing. And there may be many Other-Dangers that will need to be avoided, with Decisive-Action. Yes. This might be a Good-Time, to make some very Hard-Decisions, to Secure our Native-Rights, as a Community. Are you with me? - T

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Free-Labor-Force

But what about those Fine-Souls, who Have-Nothing?  Should they all be Disregarded? No. Those who are among the True-Believers, but who have No Monetary-Resources, might not be entirely out of luck. 

And it may be that living in this Community of Eden-Village is not too far Out of Reach. Maybe they can become part of our Free Labor-Force.

What would that take? They would have to be more than happy, to do any kind of work that needs to be done. 

And those would be the Free-Workers, who would be getting paid, in Respect, and Gratitude, and in Free-Food and Camping. 

In this way, they might have a chance to Earn some Honor. But the Free-Workers would never have to work anymore than 20 Hours a Week. And that Creates a Sunny-Day, for those, who are without Funds.

  

They would all have to start out, as someone, who will Contribute a lot, and who will Serve the Tribe, and who will go along with the Program, and as Good-People, who will respect the Decisions, which have already been made, by the Organizers, or the Planners, or by the Land-Stewards-Council.

In many ways, we are going to be a lot like the Indians out on the Reservations.

We are going to be Restoring the Tribal-HomeLands, only we do like to create some Life-Openings, for some of those who have been Left-Behind.

We believe in creating New-Opportunities, for those, who are willing to Earn it. - T

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The Plan is to Transition

 The Plan is to Transition into a Sharing and Caring Society that works within the EcoLogical Realities. Others have tried doing this Cold-Turkey, and they have Failed. 

Why? It may be that we will have to build up to the New-Modality, because of the ImPurities of Humanity. Some of us are Splitting-Apart from the rest. 

We will seek out the best places where we can Survive, and Thrive, while the others may continue to court disaster, by not Living Within the Balance, and by acting like someone is going to come to the rescue, to save them. - T

Matrilineal-Family Household-Unit in the Community

We are not all going to remain young forever, and so this might be a good time to decide, who should have to take care of the Seniors?
 
Ideally, in a Perfect-World, everyone would belong to a Matrilineal-Family Household-Unit, whether they are related or not.
 
Each Family-Unit would be expected to take care of any Seniors, in that Household-Unit.
 
All the Family-Units would be part of the Village-Council.
 
And then the Village-Council would be part of the Shasta BioRegional-Congress. 

But what about that whole Matri-Lineal Family-Unit Thing? How would that work? 

 

Daughters might need to be close, to their Mothers when they have Children. And so when the Rental-Home on the Homestead becomes available, the Daughters would have the right of first refusal.

 

So they could live in that Rental-Home, if they wanted to be closer to their Mothers, who could be helpful with the Babies, while the Sons would have to look elsewhere. 

 

And the Daughters might want to take their Mothers Maiden Names, to Celebrate the Importance of Motherhood. - T

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The Eden Project - EcoVillage Community

 

The Revolution that never happened

 

Sure. There is a lot of Hate in the Peoples Hearts. I wonder how that happened? Is that what happens? Yeah. I would not be surprised. 

 

But we don't use Phone Calls, because those are only good between existing friends, who already know each other. 

 

Phone Calls are not any good for total strangers. All that leads to is misunderstandings. And that doesn't work. We have to see Eye to Eye.

 

This is about getting into Good-Relationship. 

 

We should Meet in Person, to begin with, where we can get a better idea what we are talking about, because it is not all about your words, and my words, because it won't take long before our words do not line up.

 

You might be expecting one thing, which is common, but we are not offering that. What we are offering might be very uncommon.

 

And then we could have an Impasse. And so we have to care a lot more about the Relationships that we are Creating. And so it is always a good idea not to take things for granted. 

 

But I will make a Short-Presentation on the Project, at the Meetings, just to start things off. 

 

And then we will go around the circle to hear from each and every one of us, to see where everyone is at, to begin with. 

 

But everyone should have to Contribute, and Keep the Spirit-High, and to Keep the Faith. 

 

We all have to Buy-In to this Thing, using Money, and Hard-Work, and Love. Yeah. It is not like going to School. This is about the Formation, of a New Way of Life.   - T

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Paradise Lost

 A lot of people might expect to be set up, with nothing less than a completely Pristine Piece of Land, in Paradise, which has never been touched.

But most of our Lands have already been Compromised. They have been Bashed. And they have been Trashed. Paradise has been Lost.

The Native-Plants, and the Wildlife-Populations have all been Crushed. And the Forests have all been pushed way back up into the Mountains. 

 

And so we are coming to the Rescue, with your help. But we can’t hope to Restore things back to the way they once were, when the Indians lived here. 

All we can hope to do is to achieve a New-Balance, of Wilderness and Settled-Areas.

And we disagree with Marx, that the Ultimate Big-Showdown is between the Factory-Workers and the Bosses. 

The Real-Clash is between the Consumers, and the rest of the Natural-World. - T