Do folks have jobs off property?
Our members have worked out a range of creative solutions in order to become financially independent. The only across-the-board rule is that no one derives an income from Windward, so the short answer is that everyone derives their income off property, although in some cases it’s through the marketing of work they did on property. There are many communities that provide folks with room, board and pocket money so long as they work a certain number of hours in the community owned business. We don’t want to go that route for a number of reasons. One reason is that having a community business makes the survival of the community dependent on the survival of that business, something which shifts the emphasis from the well-being of the community to the well-being of the business. It also brings about an inevitable subordination of the community’s goals to the needs of the market place, and we don’t want to go there. Another reason is that folks already have a lifetime of experience within the
