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Showing Original Post only (View all)A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros [View all]
http://www.the-open-mind.com/a-city-where-everyone-works-there-is-no-police-and-the-salary-is-1200-euros/Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative.
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In this province alone there are 690,000 empty properties due to bank foreclosures. But not in Marinaleda, because Gordillo has a solution: anyone who wants to build their own house can do so for free. Materials and qualified workmen are provided by the town hall, and the generous allowance of 192 square meters means the homes are spacious. Families then pay just 15 euros ($19) per month for the rest of their lives, with the agreement that the house cannot be sold for private gain.
In Andalusia, unemployment now stands at 37 percent (a staggering 55 percent for young people). But Marinaleda, population 2700, has virtually full employment through the towns farming cooperative, where laborers earn equal wages of 1200 euros ($1600) per month. Here, in a region where 1 in 3 people are unemployed, this achievement cannot be understated.
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We need to rethink our values, the consumer society, the value we place on money, selfishness and individualism, Gordillo remarks. Marinaleda is a small example, and we want this experience to extend throughout the world.
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A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros [View all]
Starry Messenger
Feb 2015
OP
Families that only have to pay 19 dollars a month could really create strong families. I love this
midnight
Feb 2015
#1
2067 sq ft, to put it in units that most here could visualize more easily
Electric Monk
Feb 2015
#12
The basement sleepers were in a firetrap. Housing codes would never allow that now. n/t
pnwmom
Feb 2015
#34
I like the system as far as it goes but I cannot help but ask: where are the disabled and elderly?
jwirr
Feb 2015
#28
The fact that only one person per household is allowed to work would allow for taking care of
jwirr
Feb 2015
#36
Oh that is why I was interested in the first place but then I read how they are not interested in
jwirr
Feb 2015
#43
I was lucky the title was already written on the site I got this from.
Starry Messenger
Feb 2015
#42