All my life, I have heard about Sandhill Community in Missouri. Here lately, I have heard about other Missouri communities such as Dancing Rabbit but next to nothing about Sandhill. Is it still a community and accepting visitors?
I was watching a YouTube video on some topic that I now forget the theme of. In the video, the presenter spoke of sinister people wanting to make everyone live their lives bound to debt. Eventually, I developed an idea:
Indebtedness is a major reason that more people do not visit and join income-sharing communities. I'm thinking of the rural community that has businesses that function as a worker co-op because that is the form of community that can most liberate working people. (Sometimes, the members of such communities are in denial of this fact, perhaps because acknowledging the fact would require them to look at their own privilege.)
So, I say we focus a lot on recruiting those in the age range of about 18-24. We want to point out that they are in a window of opportunity. The older they get, the more that window closes.
There may be no way that a person can avoid aging out of the window. Try living in America without signing a car loan. Or, an apartment lease. Or falling back on a credit card. Or taking on student loans. Or, having a child or two and facing the costs, which might turn into legally enforced child support payments.
Get 'em before the mainstream does.
This idea might be resisted because some who are already in IC may not want to confront the reality that they have a bit of privilege that allowed them to get to IC themselves.
Anyway. I'm spreading the word. I wish someone had told me when I was young.
It's interesting to hear normies talk about income-sharing communities, aka communes. One hears these viewpoints:
Those places don't work.
Some do all the work while others won't do anything.
They're cults.
Communism is awful, godless, doesn't work, etc.
Hey, I'm all for getting rich. As part of a group. You could start sister communes. You could provide more health care for members.
While visiting a big "commune" many years ago, a member told me that he didn't think the younger members cared much about "socialism."
Yeah, there are Communists. There are anti-capitalist anarchists. But I've never heard that members are required to toe a "party line."
Income-sharing communities strike me as empowering worker co-ops. In the usually quieter countryside. Away from smokestacks. Where you can't get fired for no reason. Where you set your own hours. I never felt I had to take an oath with my hand on a copy of Das Capital.
Who ever heard of such a thing? But, we need more people who have visited intentional communities to leave reviews of them in relevant places. Or, any place. This will stop dysfunctional communities from wasting people's time and exploiting their labor.