3 Important Lessons I Learned About Civilization From Living In A Hippie Commune

Great article. I am going to be looking there for more from this guy.

hellraider wrote:

this article makes a couple of good points about human nature, but if fails to see that what works for 15 days does not work for society in general.

I get what you’re saying, but the point as I see it, is that the 15 days was a microcosm of what would happen if you had a group of people(humans) being left to operate in an environment devoid of a government, run by an elite class of corrupt, selfish bastards.

Whether it be a forest, urban wasteland, chaotic war-zone or post apocalyptic zombie invasion, where you have a group of people whom have banded together to survive left to their own devices, you will discover that the genders will find their own purpose, as nature intended.

The men will protect, the women will nurture. That’s our hardwired biological programming, just ask Charles Darwin.

“In regular society, you can work your ass off day in and day out, and you won’t get s~~~. In regular society the power isn’t given to the people who put in hard work – it’s handed down, and some little punk gets it, because his great, great, great, great grandfather worked to earn it in the past.”

CapitAlism refuted

lol, lets not forget that
1. They were getting food trucks in thanks to capitalism.
2. Food and first dibs on resources ended up being capitalistic. Bartering is also a function of capitalism and trade.

And all I’m saying is your real problem is with the imbalanced power created by corporatism (legislation designed by corporations for corporations) and us workers getting bad compensation for our work. You want “power to the workers” returning?

THERE IS A SOLUTION.

You have got to go after our monetary policy which is giving workers the severe short end of the stick and corporations who can run on borrowing and debt massive political power. Namely go after fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.

Anything else and you are doing it wrong and screwing up the ability for people to trade and build personal wealth expediently. You are posting on the internet provided by a corporation, with a computer provided by a corporation, inside a home likely built by a company, with power provided by a corporation or company and complaining that the capitalism is the problem.

Believe me if capitalism it was the problem you couldn’t do any of what you are doing now. You wouldn’t own the computer, the government would.

Look bb, I’m saying power to the workers is not capitalism. Any gains from the enterprise go to the money guys. Labor is just a cost to be gotten at the cheapest rate. I’m sorry you can’t handle what capitalism is.

What stops you from spending less than you earn and investing the difference? The beautiful thing about our system is you can become a partial owner of any company with publicly traded stock. I made over 1,000 bucks last quarter just for being invested in some businesses, and that amount is only going to go up as I continue to work hard, produce more than I consume, and put that extra money into investments rather than wasting it on dumb s~~~ like women, weed, or a big house and fancy cars.

Capitalism empowers the workers more than any other system. If the government took control of all production and told everyone they would be getting a salary of 3,000 dollars a month regardless of what they do, I’d stop working immediately. If the government told me I had to work I’d go find the easiest, least stressful job I could and work as few hours as possible. Systems like that empower the lazy and the leeches, not the workers.

This rainbow fest didn’t so much make me think of a grand social experiment as it made me think of my last camping trip. A few guys showed up with the campers and the food. The rest of us just tossed them some money for fuel and food. The same couple guys cooked every night because they enjoyed cooking, while the rest of us sat around drinking and playing horse shoes and crap. Sure I helped clean up and did a garbage run after dinner so we didn’t attract raccoons or bears at night time…but at the end of the trip it was the guys that did all the prep shopping and cooking that did 90% of the work.

If this “experiment” went on long term you’d end up with the workers going off on their own so they didn’t have so much dead weight to pull, lazy people being kicked out, or lazy opting out soon as the initial supplies ran out and they realized it wasn’t just a giant weed filled hippy fantasy. Do a little research on Twin Oaks commune. Its a hippy commune that sells hammocks. If you don’t work, they kick you the f~~~ out…you don’t just end up with 10% of the population happily working and 90% being drunk/stoned hippies the other 10% happily supports. In the end the 10% supporting the other 90% would just end up becoming capitalists lol.

Beer wrote:

If the government told me I had to work I’d go find the easiest, least stressful job I could and work as few hours as possible.

F~~~ing 5 star quote.
I f~~~ing call being a porn actor. God knows I am not going to get f~~~ed and not do some f~~~ing.

Have I offered a solution? I do know sincerely considering complaints is a step way before, creating a red scare.

In a way yes, as whatever it is includes, will also blame capitalism. Already know whatever you have in mind is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Corporate power in government is a problem, so how do they attain such power? No legal mandated separation of economics and state.

They are exploiting workers? Then make sure if a worker decides he wants to be employed he is paid with something concrete in value and not something that will simply fluctuate with inflation and expansion of credit in the market.

Capitalists profit from the labor of others. I’m not making it up. Honest. Are you denying it is so?

This what the author is complaining about. Why are you getting gonked out?

Yeah, because someone has to start the service business, be responsible for legal action against it if something goes wrong to a customer, be on the hook of someone robs the company or the employees themselves steal because it was a bad hire, provide more than just a typical 40 hour workweek to keep it functioning, take ENORMOUS risks such as bankrupcy, business failure, and etc, compete every moment against other competitors who rather run you out of business if they can, and have the skills to have it functioning and running. So if you don’t have a kid to get help with more than a multiple man job, you can pay someone to help.

Damn right you should have more compensation than the typical worker free of those stresses. No one would provide you a damn service because there would be no small businesses just MASSIVE CORPORATIONS.

As long as the MONEY has real value, no one has problems and workers are happy. I’d rather be paid 1.25 in silver PER HOUR than 12-16 dollars an hour. Why? The money is legit and the cost of living will be better.

Beer wrote:

I’m gonna be the stunt dick! I’m the guy with the little pecker they let the new girls try out anal and stuff with so she isn’t so scared about getting impaled by a monster!

lol f~~~ my sides!