The family pack
fredag 25 september, 2009 - 218 VisningarWhen a large families go to the supermarket they buy things in “family packs” to save some money on essential goods.
As we promote larger and larger nuclear families (people living together under the same roof) the occasions to buy “family packs” and save on essential goods will become larger.
A larger nuclear family with more adults working and getting a salary will be able to arrive more easily to the end of the month paying the rent and all the bills.
A larger nuclear family with more adults working and getting a salary will have, in short, more economic power.
If we put together more than a nuclear family to live under the same roof or in close proximity, we will have a community with a even greater economic power.
They could stay in a larger house with better facilities (maybe a swimming pool, why not?), they can buy essential stuff in even larger family packs and they can share services (laundry, housekeeping, baby sitting etc.) that would be too expensive or impractical for a single family.
The larger the community the larger is the economic power, the higher is the quality of life for all the members of the community.
Now we are talking only of economic power, but in a community the grounds for mutual support are many, and a good community can create the basis for a really good quality of life for all its members.
If more than one community join together to create a cooperative of communities, then the economic power becomes greater and greater.
How do you start creating a community?
Going out on the street and asking people if they are interested in joining a community can be impractical, and here is where the internet and RebelBay can be really useful.
In your profile on RebelBay you can write that you are interested in creating or joining a community and the first step is taken.
Other Rebels visiting your profile will know and maybe contact you and before you know you are at the second step, then at the third and so on.
How can we help in the process of community building?
For one thing we can create some tools to help people interested in creating or joining a community or anyway interested in doing “something”, to contact each other and communicate.
Then we pass at the second point: helping in the creation of the rules for starting and managing communities.
In a perfect world we would not need any rules to live together in perfect harmony, but we are not living in a perfect world so, if we want to have a community that really works we need to create good ground rules to be followed by all members of the community.
Every community should have different rules according to the needs and interests of its members.
We can create a special board in RebelBay to suggest and discuss possible ground rules, and then problems incurred in community life and suggest solutions on how to solve them.
The third very important thing we can do is to create tools for the management of “family packs”.
Even if difficult to implement, the basic concept is relatively easy:
1) Bring together people who need to buy the same stuff
2) Contact the suppliers or even better the producers, eliminating as much as possible the middle men.
3) Create a system of direct distribution of the goods from the producer/supplier to the communities or families (the clients)
We can also create tools to organize and manage services by the communities and for the communities.
In the process of implementing the last two points (purchase and distribution of goods to the communities and creation and management of services for the communities) it is very much possible that new jobs can be created for some members of the communities, creating a full economic circle.
