I found two interesting links on social/economic organizations today. The first is what a programmer might call an "anti-pattern," a thorough exploration of what not to do, and why something so wrong might seem to work:
Sick systems It reminds me a little of factory-farmed "cage-free"
chickens, who can see grass but are too afraid to approach it.
The second is just about the opposite, and reminds me of Polyface Farms and similar, with regular cycles of pulse-and-recover that defy conventional expectations of productivity:
The way we’re working isn’t working: Four forgotten needs That link is maintained by a business that works to reform mainstream employment, but I see no reason that the same ideas wouldn't benefit an
intentional community just as well.
"the qualities of these bacteria, like the heat of the sun, electricity, or the qualities of metals, are part of the storehouse of knowledge of all men. They are manifestations of the laws of nature, free to all men and reserved exclusively to none." SCOTUS, Funk Bros. Seed Co. v. Kale Inoculant Co.