#### Core Purpose
- validate and showcase micro society model
- Showcase sustainable luxury without exploitation
- Build community pride and expertise
- Allow for individual creativity and craftmanship
- Design for maintenance efficiency and communal integration
- [[commonwealth efficiency model]]
#### Example Projects
| Project Type | Market Cost | Society Cost | Core Demonstration |
| ------------ | ---------------- | --------------- | ------------------------- |
| Spa Complex | $2.5M + $575k/yr | $825k + $80k/yr | Service without hierarchy |
| Arts Center | $1.8M + $420k/yr | $650k + $65k/yr | Democratic culture |
| Culinary Lab | $2.2M + $490k/yr | $780k + $75k/yr | Sustainable luxury |
#### Economic Advantages
| Factor | Market Model | Micro Society | Key Difference |
| --------------- | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| Initial Costs | Material + Labor + Profit | Material + Permits | No profit extraction |
| Operating Costs | Staff + Maintenance + Markup | Utilities + Maintenance + Insurance | Community labor |
| Labor Model | Wage-based hierarchy | Skill-based contribution | Equitable structure |
| Resource Use | Independent systems | Integrated efficiency | Shared optimization |
- Cost Advantage Through Structure:
- no profit margins (20-30% savings)
- Shared maintenance burden (reduces individual costs)
- Integrated resource use (improves efficiency)
- Skill development as community investment
- ??/ community resource pooling and democratic allocation allows investment in high-end facilities
- task system provides sustainable, dedicated, expert labor for construction and maintenance
- "Democratic task-based expertise development": individuals invest in building specialized skills to build/maintain community luxuries
- "Commonwealth services without exploitation": high-end amenities without service class hierarchy
- "culture of reducing community burden through individual innovations leading to shared standardized efficiency":
- Continuous improvement is incentivized
- individual efforts of craftsmanship and optimization are celebrated
- skills and optimizations are documented and taught
- luxury goods demonstrate
- luxury doesn't have to be exploitative, profit extractive, or exclusive
- collective resource systems can achieve premium results superior to market
- efficiency of removing profit extraction
- high-end experiences don't require service worker exploitation