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

[Joe Nolan (jnolan]

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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