Common Good

A couple of entrepreneurs discover the complexity of the barriers from poverty as they tackle this issue in Calgary, by providing employment to the homeless.
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[jessicamarieshaughnessy]

Common good was a good company to work for when they were on their own. Sadly when they partnered with their competitor the kept losing staff cuz of how we were treated. I loved working with Dave, Victoria and Hannah but couldn't stay after they partnered with their competitor. Common good was an amazing company and did amazing things when they were running and I would go back and work for them if it was just ran just by Dave and Hannah and not the competitors.

[jackmorgan]

A story about Hutterite power generation didn't allow comments, probably because the producers expected some critical feedback to that story and apparently that wasn't allowed to happen. Still, it was comical how the producers during the story more and more were trying to ignore some hard truths about Hutterite life, facts that were pressing more and more in the background the longer the story went on. The producers should have left the comments section open to provide a more balanced and nuanced view of the Hutterites, their motivations and how the power projects fitted into all that.

The Hutterites are a religious communist patriarchal society who, with their industries, compete on uneven and unfair terms in the market place. This is the Soviet Union or Cuba with an underlying religious doctrine. Everyone is indoctrinated to the hilt to comply with this structure. They do not pay their employees, everyone works for free and only get a small allowance at the end of the month. The fact that these colonies have plenty of money to finance huge projects is proof of the unfair competitive advantage they have because of their lack of labour costs.

A Hutterite's earthly possessions fit into a small box the size of a suitcase. The global elite's mantra "You will own nothing and you will be happy" fully applies to the Hutterites.

The Hutterites get into alternative 'green' energy for the money. To them it is just another business opportunity, so that ideological stuff of 'saving the earth' just makes them smile wearily. As the man said; "You're now going to ask me about carbon, don't you?" The proliferation of those colonies will create a growing problem in the future for the country in which they are situated, because of their very nature of not paying their people as it are communist enclaves. It would have shown more integrity if the producers would have mentioned that these colonies were communist societies, run by a small group of male elders, unfairly feeding of their capitalist surroundings through unpaid labour.