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The current Godfather of Socialism, Bernie Sanders was once kicked out of a hippie commune for being a lazy POS and letting everyone else do all the work, while the fruits of labor were distributed evenly. Why do most of the people advocating for Socialism seem to be the least productive?

Here is an interesting passage from an article about his stay at the commune:

"The future senator’s opening remarks were followed by a Q&A between him and a friend, Loraine (spelled “Lorraine” in the article), who had recently given birth to a baby, Rahula (spelled “Rahoula” in the article), on the Myrtle Hill commune.

During labor, Loraine said she was surrounded by a circle of hippies chanting “a meditation mancha” that “seemed to really bring in good energy.”
This group included “the couple of men who were potentially the baby’s father,” wrote Deloz. After Rahula was delivered at dawn, “someone ran out into the field and blew a long blast on a hunting horn.” Loraine then ate her afterbirth, a detail that does not appear in the book, but that appeared in the second part of Sanders’ essay.

When Sanders wasn’t reporting on the wonders of childbirth, he spent his time at Myrtle Hill in “endless political discussion,” according to Deloz.

Sander’s idle chat didn’t go over to well with some of the residents of the commune who spent their time engaged in the backbreaking labor that was required to maintain the commune. Daloz says that one residents, Craig, “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.”

Sanders was eventually kicked out of the commune. “When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle’s allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on,” Daloz writes.

Deloz does not specifically address what issues Sanders discussed with commune residents, but earlier passages give the general flavor of political discussion at Myrtle Hill. “There were bigger ideas under discussion too: a kibbutz-style school for commune children; the possibility of a coming violent revolution; and the pros and cons of group marriage.” In another passage, Deloz describes how one commune resident led the children on marches, chanting “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! Vietcong is going to win!”
The commune at Myrtle Hill Farm lasted into the 1980s before the socialist idealism fizzled out in the end. Daloz describes how the residents of the commune eventually adopted lifestyles the originally rejected, with traditional gender roles and monogamous relationships—”Free Love turned off like a faucet.”"

"Lazy Bernie" Was Once Kicked Out of Hippie Commune

From the 3 allotted day description, clearly Bernie was never in, and was just either checking it out, visiting, or recruiting.
But I have never see any commune that required "backbreaking labor".
That is the whole point, in that the larger the group, the more automatically efficient and the less anyone has to work.
For example the rent does not increase when you simply occupy more of the rooms of the building.

That's how you spin that? Bernie Sanders never held a steady job until he was 40. His only steady jobs have all been in politics spending other people's money.

Why would anyone productive want to go to a hippie commune, fanatically work his butt off, and have to share it all evenly with everyone else?

 

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The current Godfather of Socialism, Bernie Sanders was once kicked out of a hippie commune for being a lazy POS and letting everyone else do all the work, while the fruits of labor were distributed evenly. Why do most of the people advocating for Socialism seem to be the least productive?

Here is an interesting passage from an article about his stay at the commune:

"The future senator’s opening remarks were followed by a Q&A between him and a friend, Loraine (spelled “Lorraine” in the article), who had recently given birth to a baby, Rahula (spelled “Rahoula” in the article), on the Myrtle Hill commune.

During labor, Loraine said she was surrounded by a circle of hippies chanting “a meditation mancha” that “seemed to really bring in good energy.”
This group included “the couple of men who were potentially the baby’s father,” wrote Deloz. After Rahula was delivered at dawn, “someone ran out into the field and blew a long blast on a hunting horn.” Loraine then ate her afterbirth, a detail that does not appear in the book, but that appeared in the second part of Sanders’ essay.

When Sanders wasn’t reporting on the wonders of childbirth, he spent his time at Myrtle Hill in “endless political discussion,” according to Deloz.

Sander’s idle chat didn’t go over to well with some of the residents of the commune who spent their time engaged in the backbreaking labor that was required to maintain the commune. Daloz says that one residents, Craig, “resented feeling like he had to pull others out of Bernie’s orbit if any work was going to get accomplished that day.”

Sanders was eventually kicked out of the commune. “When Bernie had stayed for Myrtle’s allotted three days, Craig politely requested that he move on,” Daloz writes.

Deloz does not specifically address what issues Sanders discussed with commune residents, but earlier passages give the general flavor of political discussion at Myrtle Hill. “There were bigger ideas under discussion too: a kibbutz-style school for commune children; the possibility of a coming violent revolution; and the pros and cons of group marriage.” In another passage, Deloz describes how one commune resident led the children on marches, chanting “Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh! Vietcong is going to win!”
The commune at Myrtle Hill Farm lasted into the 1980s before the socialist idealism fizzled out in the end. Daloz describes how the residents of the commune eventually adopted lifestyles the originally rejected, with traditional gender roles and monogamous relationships—”Free Love turned off like a faucet.”"

"Lazy Bernie" Was Once Kicked Out of Hippie Commune

From the 3 allotted day description, clearly Bernie was never in, and was just either checking it out, visiting, or recruiting.
But I have never see any commune that required "backbreaking labor".
That is the whole point, in that the larger the group, the more automatically efficient and the less anyone has to work.
For example the rent does not increase when you simply occupy more of the rooms of the building.

That's how you spin that? Bernie Sanders never held a steady job until he was 40. His only steady jobs have all been in politics spending other people's money.

Why would anyone productive want to go to a hippie commune, fanatically work his butt off, and have to share it all evenly with everyone else?

The whole point of a hippie commune is that by sharing expenses, life is so much less expensive for everyone, that no one has to work nearly as hard. It is the nuclear family, where overhead is not shared, where people have to work much harder.
Communism, socialism, or hippie communes have NOTHING at all to do with sharing equally with everyone.
All that are shared equally are expenses and debts. Your additional assets and what you earn are totally separate from communal resources that go into paying overhead, like food, rent, utilities, etc. But when you pay your water bill, there is a $20 extra fee even if the meter does not register you used a drop of water. So living in communes reduces those fixed, per house, costs.