Tangentially related, one place to experiment with this might be charter communities that serve retirees living on social security. This group is increasingly relegated to poor quality of life due to reduced or non-existent retirement savings.
A targeted charter community could be funded through the social security income of the residents, then, supplemented via a work culture that focused on operating the community itself. They'd pay in their social security income, have a place to live, and take on work that supports the community. I suppose this would be similar to (or exactly like?) a collective: let's say everyone works 20 hours per week and people can rotate through assignments such as preparing meals, brewing the beer, cleaning the pool, caring for the less firm, harvesting the tomatoes, planning movie night, arranging social events, etc.
All participants would essentially work together to raise the quality of life for all.
Such an endeavor could benefit substantially from supporting software infrastructure to automate and streamline the operating activities, identify, define, scope and schedule the work.
Community and purpose not only improve quality of life, but also extend it.
You mean something like a monastic community? It used to work like this on the Iberian Peninsula: the person, usually a widow, would pay a sum into the convent and participate in the spiritual life and work alongside the other nuns and lay sisters.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 9.9 ms ] threadA targeted charter community could be funded through the social security income of the residents, then, supplemented via a work culture that focused on operating the community itself. They'd pay in their social security income, have a place to live, and take on work that supports the community. I suppose this would be similar to (or exactly like?) a collective: let's say everyone works 20 hours per week and people can rotate through assignments such as preparing meals, brewing the beer, cleaning the pool, caring for the less firm, harvesting the tomatoes, planning movie night, arranging social events, etc.
All participants would essentially work together to raise the quality of life for all.
Such an endeavor could benefit substantially from supporting software infrastructure to automate and streamline the operating activities, identify, define, scope and schedule the work.
Community and purpose not only improve quality of life, but also extend it.
How about we just pay our workers fair wages instead of scheming up ways to put as much power as possible in the hands of oligarchs.