The Business Community

Everyone paid their taxes and rent by  today.

Some people did online transfers, some wrote checks. Now everyone is much more focused on the money aspect of village.

With this focus have come many schemes for making money.  Several people have brought in things to sell from home.  Aggie is making wallets and checkbooks to order. We have two businesses being proposed.  After some spectacular fallout in previous years, I require businesses of more than one person to sign a contract in advance of beginning the business.  We had a meeting, and I shared some of the things that are necessary in a contract, and the group added several more important ideas.

We talked about negotiating and why you shouldn’t sign things you aren’t sure are ok with you. After the contract is signed, the government will require people to live up to the terms of the contracts they sign.

One group is at the end of the negotiating process, and I will review the contract and decide if it will be validated. I will judge on clarity, not fairness.

The whole class is abuzz with schemes for businesses and making money.  Just as we all felt as we learned financial responsibility by making decisions, your child will feel distress and disappointment with this process at some point.

It is fantastic if class members can use scrap materials to make a product, and if they would like to sell things that are truly not wanted and needed by families.  I require that they clear anything they want to sell with you first, and I would ask that you not invest real money on things that will be sold for peep dollars.

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