For a community where the money has quietly stopped being everyone's
Money conversations have gone strange
Nothing improper has happened, and the finances have stopped being something anybody can have an opinion about.
4 steps 19 min of reading free, no account
What you will be able to do
01
Work out the run rate — how much of last year was covered by something that will not recur
02
Ask for a figure the summary report does not contain
03
Tell an asset sale that is a decision from one that has become a habit
04
Price a buy-out honestly, and see who is left doing the work
The path
4 steps, in order
- Where the money quietly moves Two communities met the same pressure and answered it opposite ways — one sold the commons and kept the model, the other kept the commons and changed the model.
- Finances nobody can inspect Not hidden, exactly — just held by two people, reported in summary, and never actually examined by anyone else.
- The commons sold to cover the shortfall Every sale funds another year, every sale is defensible, and the thing being sold is what made the community possible.
- Contribution that stops being shared Some members pay their way out of the work — reasonably, one at a time — until the rota is done by whoever cannot afford not to.
- Path complete Then: What joining costs.
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