Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: HOA Dues Structures

[Brian Bartholomew (bartholomew.brian]

 > the causes of inequality

Some human beings are more productive than others. Some can fill a
stadium with customers paying to watch their entertainment. Some can
invent the telephone. Most cannot. Even if you repealed the ability
of government to transfer earned wealth between people, there would
still be inequality.

This inequality in production remains if you are doing barter on
Gilligan's Island where no money system exists. The biggest comedy
plot point of Gilligan's Island is that one society member has
negative production, and ruins things others have made. Compound
Gilligan's negative production rate and the Professor's positive
production rate for a decade and the difference in saved wealth is
huge. Why would you want a government to take the Professor's gadgets
and give them to Gilligan to break? That makes everybody, *including
Gilligan*, worse off.

Does any coho use the dues structure of "pay your actual costs"? If
your unit needs x% of sprinkler heads or y% of the roofing materials
than you pay that percentage of the irrigation and roofing company's
bill. Do condo laws even permit this?

Brian