Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Income sharing in cohousing

[Sharon Villines (sharonvillines]

> open-heartedness behind these arrangements for mutual support.  But those
> instances are not what I think was meant by the phrase "income sharing" in
> Rob's original post.

I think that was understood by everyone commenting. I was responding to the
spirit of sharing which in formal income sharing is institutionalized, vs
personal sharing which is not.

I've been in many situations where people were sharing based on "needs" and
found all of them to be impossible. People's perceptions of their own
"needs" varies widely. Some are impossibly self-sacrificing and others
convinced that they will die without a new toothbrush every day. It takes a
very culturally homogeneous group to work through this.
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Sharon Villines
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