forming a new tribe

Nah, its a good reason to not be a lazy ass, and climb the roof and clean the damned chimney once and a while...lol

After getting dressed.

 

The big thing about buy ins is that they DO screen out a lot of users. Yeah, it sucks when you're broke- but in some cases, you can work off the buy in, pay it over time, or whatever. But frankly... I've gotten screwed over so many times by people with hard-luck stories that I tried to help, I can really see the need for a certain base level of responsibility that having money implies. ("Can you perform regular work that may or may not be interesting or fascinating most of the time? Can you meet your obligations to do work you've been assigned, in a timely manner, and with a reasonably good attitude?")

 

The problem (besides the previously mentioned ones) with the idea of a buy in being used to screen people is that finding people who will work period is hard enough, excluding some of those because they have no money is working against yourself.

There are many many reasons a person who will work may be broke. Anything from the company they worked at going bankrupt and them not being able to find a new job before their savings run out and lose everything, to a spouse fucking off and taking everything.

If someone is willing to work, it shouldn't (and doesn't to me), matter if someone shows up with nothing but the clothes on their back, they will not be turned away because babylon left them broke. By the same token, a slacker could show up with 10k in his pocket and not be welcomed regardless of it.

The idea that having cash in some way shows that you have a 'certain level' of responsibility is simply not true. Perhaps the slacker stubled upon a field of pot at home, stole it and sold it. Maybe a relative died and gave it too them. Maybe they just won a lawsuit against another community they were living in that kicked them out. Or maybe they were the spouse that fucked off with everything from the second paragraph.

The point being, cash in a pocket, doesn't mean anything other then there is cash in a pocket and certainly isn't a measure of a person's responsibility or maturity.