The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks
I&#x27;ve been thinking about some way to have a communal setup like this but on a much smaller scale, and with some of the group working remotely at tech industry programming salaries.<p>So you&#x27;d have 2-3 people working remotely in tech, bringing in 100k USD each (low estimate for full time, or maybe they don&#x27;t want to work full time).<p>Another 4-6 people working in the commune and handling the cooking, maintenance, working the farm&#x2F;garden, child care, etc.<p>And since it&#x27;s a commune, the money earned by the remote workers is put into a common pool and used to buy all the food, medical insurance, health care, clothes, etc. The farm would probably provide all the meat and a lot of the vegetables, but you&#x27;d still need to buy a lot of other foods.<p>And hopefully, eventually the commune would figure out a successful business and the remote developers could eventually quit and work on the commune as well, if they wanted =)<p>Thoughts?