I’m curious if there’s much record of intentional communities that aren’t farming communes. (i.e. the sort of tech commune that rationalists seem more likely to want to try and start seem like they would have a related but non-identical set of issues to the ones depicted here). I do expect the “attracting starry eyed dreamers without enough skills” to be an issue.
I’m curious if there’s much record of intentional communities that aren’t farming communes.
Oneida comes to mind. They had some farming (it was upstate New York in the 1850s, after all) but also a lot of manufacturing — most famously silverware. The community is long gone, but the silverware company is still around.
I’m curious if there’s much record of intentional communities that aren’t farming communes. (i.e. the sort of tech commune that rationalists seem more likely to want to try and start seem like they would have a related but non-identical set of issues to the ones depicted here). I do expect the “attracting starry eyed dreamers without enough skills” to be an issue.
Oh, it actually talks about this at the end, shame on me for not reading to the end before commenting.
(In my defense, it was really long. :P)
Oneida comes to mind. They had some farming (it was upstate New York in the 1850s, after all) but also a lot of manufacturing — most famously silverware. The community is long gone, but the silverware company is still around.