One of them was cleaning the bathroom. There were several bathrooms, it was a big building. Nobody wanted to clean the bathrooms.

But, actually, cleaning bathrooms is pretty easy. It might be a little gross sometimes, but it's easy, and it's fast, and you're a hero cuz you cleaned the bathroom.

The other hated job, tho, was KP (kitchen prep).

And I have not the slightest idea why it was a hated job!

Most nights, KP was zero.

Some nights, KP might be peel 50 pounds of potatoes, but, hey, we were a co-op, and co-ops are wealthy, and we had a potato peeling machine. It took less time to peel the potatoes than it did to clean the machine.

People, generally, don't understand how successful co-ops can be, given only motivated people willing to pool their time, energy, and money.

My college co-op housed 40 people and fed 80 people every night, at roughly 40% of the cost of a dorm and a cafeteria.

I have lived in intentional community about 95% of my adult life.

Even today, inside my current (and prolly last) community, there are several smaller co-ops that exist.

I have chop saw, a table saw, and two generators. That's just the little co-ops.

The larger community owns a community center, a tractor, a tractor-shed, a snow-plow, a dump truck, and on and on.

Co-ops and communities are the answer to the rapacious capitalism that is destroying our world.