"Other members argue that salvation lies in ramping up Twin Oaks tofu.... the tofu hut is a literal sweatshop: hot, damp, and factory-like. The tofu managers have had a hard time persuading residents to pick up the extra shifts that are needed to expand production.... There's concern that the communal culture will change if members are pushed into the scheduled, repetitive, money-oriented labor that many of them joined Twin Oaks to escape. If that happens, some residents will probably move on."
And there's the crux of the matter: these "residents" don't want to work, they are lazy. They all have this pie in the sky fantasy of communal living where food and clothes just appear, and they can sit around all day writing bad poetry and attending protests and smoking weed.
It sounds like there's a core group that keeps things running, but it also sounds like they get a lot of drifters who think it's a Greatfeul Dead parking lot party 24/7.
How many farmers would KILL to have 500 acres and a live-in workforce, and make a great living? They whine and cry and hold to their idiotic ideals, and don't realize how wealthy they truly are - typical hippies.
Fine with me if they want to live that way, as long as they don't get government money or support, and god help any kids raised there. But I just have to laugh, that yet again, a bunch of flunkies from the 60's find out yet again socialism is unsustainable.
Maybe in 40 years more, they'll learn what "diviersification" means, and expand their product line from 2 things. Hammocks and tofu for everyone! Bwahahahahahahaha!
Stupid hippies.
"attending protests"
Any bets that these people are filling out the numbers as hired protesters in DC?
500 acres? Dayem, they should take up farming. grow something other than beans.
Or build a golf course :)
Couldn't help but notice this little gem buried in their FAQs:
"Because of our income-sharing, our members often qualify for state-subsidized health care at medical facilities in the area."
In other words, they use their low income to get welfare health benefits from the taxpayers. They do not mention the food stamps and free abortions and condoms -- but it goes without saying they are probably not so high-minded as to turn down these freebies, either.