Basic resources
Besides food and shelter, the other "basic resources" that I am proposing or theorizing are possible to provide with this basic amount of labor are the following:
1. a library for all to use
2. some sort of communication facility for Internet and phone
3. Land, as in a place to build a studio, office, shop, engage in cottage industry and land to engage in organic commercial agriculture. All these could be engaged in either as cooperatives or individually. It seems impossible to say for sure how exactly individual industry, or individual cooperative industry will play out. It just seems important that individuals know they have this freedom.
4. A Laundromat
5. a shared facility at which to bathe; like a campground, camp, or school with men's and women's sides
6. perhaps, some sort of shared office space, office cubicles, small private and quiet space.... perhaps combined with library and communication facility
7. It is unclear whether the primary school for the children can be supported with this minimum labor input. But enlightened writers and educators have inferred that in rather "ideal" circumstances children can learn remarkably quickly. If the whole community was engaged in "educating" the children, this might look or seem a lot more like just part of life than some sort of chore.
While it seems impossible to say with surety exactly what can and cannot be accomplished, it also seems absolutely essential to be crystal clear about the basic intent. Otherwise, there would be no incentive to be efficient and "ethical" in our prosperity. In other words, the freedom and quality of life for the individual would be in jeopardy either by individuals wanting or demanding more, or by the "group mind" also drifting into "unethical luxury".
"Prosperity without austerity, leads to unethical luxury and to a society which is corrupt and immoral" by Jiddu Krishnamurti
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