• Michael@slrpnk.net
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      Even if that’s true on an individual level - they often pool funds as a community to those in need (mutual aid).

      The Amish where I live are doing better than most people with their businesses, which are thriving in this economy.

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        eider

        I’m assuming this was a typo – sea duck community support makes no sense – but I can’t quite figure out what the intended word was. Elder? Other? Something else?

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          Whoops, meant to write wider community support. Like Catholic nuns and priests have the congregation who tithe and a similar system for Buddhist monks as well as monks off a lot of faiths.