Two Communes Like Ours Went Broke. Why We Didn't (Part 2)

📒 The Colony Ledger, my book. How the money on a colony really works, one purse for 150 people, with worksheets: https://andreasandeva.gumroad.com/l/c... 📚 Both our books, my ledger and Eva's cookbook, for $79.90: https://andreasandeva.gumroad.com/l/c... (If the link won't open, type andreasandeva.gumroad.com into your browser.) Part 2 of "What happens when the money runs out." Two other peoples lived out of one common purse, the way Hutterites do. In Iowa, the Amana Colonies fed everyone from more than fifty communal kitchens, until a fire, a $500,000 debt and the Depression brought a 96% vote to stop in 1932. In Israel, the kibbutzim owed about $4 billion by 1990, and today only about one in eight still shares equally. Why did they give it up, and why didn't we? A Stanford economist's answer, a study of 200 communes, the three reasons I believe, and what those Iowa villages turned into. I'm Andreas Wurz, a Hutterite. I keep the books on a colony of 150 people in southern Alberta. Tell me in the comments: Have you ever lived somewhere where almost everything was shared? What made it work, or what broke it? And if your family had to vote tomorrow on sharing everything or splitting it up, how would the vote go?