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In our new series, Outliers, VICE explores worlds beyond the economic mainstream, meeting people who’ve chosen unusual and sometimes radical relationships to money, commerce and capitalism. For our first episode we headed to Virginia, where a cluster of communes thrives in rural, conservative Louisa County.
In exchange for working around 40 hours a week, Twin Oaks’ roughly 100 residents get everything taken care of, free of charge, from food to housing to health insurance. But the community is able to provide so generously because of their successful businesses; for over thirty years, they produced every hammock sold at Pier One and today, they sell tofu to Whole Foods.
We traveled to Twin Oaks to learn what life is like at the communal fringes of capitalism.
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I wish it was raining this weekend and Trudeau had a event outside
Its not possible to drop out of capitalism cappitaliam sooner or later gets you religion is there to deal with dynamic of capitalism
"because of their partnerships with corporate America"
Okay, there is no way you can say this isn't capitalist at all.
No one will stop you and you wouldn't be the first to drop out. Having some experience living/working in a commune I can say many comrades preferred the lazing around and making babies aspect to the physical labor demands.
Good luck, you'll need that as well as lots of energy and skills. Sewing, gardening, mechanics, cooking, cleaning, yard maintenance, fishing, hunting, plumbing, carpentry, welding, painting and a host of associated skills as well. And if you're a go getter, get used to shouldering an inordinate share of the chores because the Pareto principle is still well in force. That's the 80/20 rule. 80% of the work gets done by 20% of the workers. Have fun.
This is a work of art. I read a book with similar content, and it was truly a work of art. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint
So the purpose of life and neighborhood is to have fun?
02:12 this is impossible i promise you there is a boss directing things…..they might not call it a boss or might call it tufu happy time person…but there is a boss doing some planning and bossing people around to get stuff done. otherwise this place would have fell apart decades ago and it wouldnt be making 600k a year engaging in capitalism with the outside world……whoever is in charge of that place is the one getting paid…..its a brillaint scheme for near slave labor and generating profit
I have been wanting to drop out of the rat race for a long time now. I considered living in a van. Keeping my job. But crazy lowering my monthly expenses. No more $10,000 for a new sewer line. $10,000 for a new roof or more. Ehhh so much money spent maintaining just extra square footage. Ehh.
Apparently they still need insurance though… from Geico.
the US dropped out of capitalism when people voted for a socialist democracy and government entitlements your favorite corrupt politicians talk about the constitution but Hate the word and call this a socialist democracy you can't have both you have been indoctrinated
For the people who think this group has dropped out of capitalism, imagine if they did not trade with businesses outside their commune. Sorry folks; they are capitalists.
Dropping out of Capitalism is the greatest expression of Capitalism. Under Socialism, you're not allowed to drop out of a damn thing. The freedom to create a commune exists only within an environment where the choice of individual lifestyles is possible.
This checks out almost fully as a lifestyle I'd love but I'm deeply monogamous and would bring a partner with me so unless that's chill I guess I'm barred from it? I couldn't care less what everyone else does, no that's wrong I'd be happy for them, so that kind of sucks.
Then we can't sell our Tofu for as much says the "socialist" bro… HAHAHHAH wtf
This isn't dropping out of capitalism. As the place makes £600 profit from its slaves every year.
6:50 "isn't that fun? 🤓" fucking NERD
This is a damn daycare camp for adult yuppies and dopefiends.
I'm charmed by this content. A book with kindred themes profoundly changed my life's trajectory. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Fun fact. That place no longer exists. Nobody wanted to work they are now back in capitalism
Balance
Yes I have, especially since the socialists started getting their way
With most of these communes, I would hope they would account for disabled persons that maybe are not able to work the 40 hours a week. As in letting them live there whilst also being ok with them doing what they are able to do, even if it's not 40 hours a week of physical labor. In many activist groups and mutual aid coalitions, I've noticed they don't always account for this. If you can't do what they require, despite them being a "mutual aid" coalition , some will outright banish you.
Oh boy, you idiots. The life style you are presenting here is only possible under the current conjecture and status of the country which capitalism you hate soo much. Try to practice the same thing in North Korea which is obviously not a capitalist country and let us see how well you fare. Capitalist or not, U.S. is not the worst place on earth to live, it still provides you with the liberty for what you are doing right now. Your main issue is, if every government and every other citizen in U.S. decides to your way of living, all of you would go to a world of hell despite of you believe otherwise. There are of course middle ground solution which is proven to work in North Europe Countries such as Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany etc. But if you would switch to that lifestyle Country wide, you would just be a food and slave for more powerful countries like China/Russia. Good luck with that. So live that life you choose but stop promoting it, since in your unlikely success your would fail yourselves.
Imagine just having a turn at things instead of coming home from work and having to do everything. I imagine that there is good and bad to every system but it would be nice if I didn’t have to garden alone and trusting your neighbors enough to borrow what you need. Imagine how much less you spend by having one riding mower shared on the street rather than everyone having to buy their own. If it needs work, having a mechanic already on the team or everyone pooling together to pay for repairs. My pressure washer sits idle in the driveway most of the time but if I hired somebody to pressure wash just once, they want 3x the cost of a machine for the service. I have no illusions of being completely independent of capitalism. I just want someone to have my back really.
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