Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Should individual "sponsorship" be allowed of community property?

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

We also have ways of getting around small item purchases. We don't use the
process for things which would bog it down. What I'm talking about is larger
"gifts," which is what started the discussion.

Liz

> 
> 
> Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:
> 
>> Joe- I should have made it more clear that I wasn't specifically referring
>> to your system, rather the idea of a gift system as a whole.
>> 
> I agree with your principles & am sympathetic to your position. At the
> small scale we typically do things, however, those principles don't seem
> relevant. Everyone in our community is basically middle-class, so if I
> spend $20 on the park bench whereas you spend $10, then no social
> injustice has really occurred - at least from a pragmatic POV. The
> amounts in question are in the "discretionary" range for all concerned.
> Anyway, I can see there might be a cultural benefit to a "pure
> consensus" system - our group has made a trade-off on this for improved
> efficiency.

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