David Lee

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• July 27, 2008, on Non-profit Ideas:

  I like your ideas. Wikipedia is amazing. The power of volunteer groups in general is surprising to me. The "Latin American Village" would be hard, but it might work due to current demographic trends. The current baby bust and divorce is causing a lot of loneliness in the suburbs. You would need a special zoning exception from the city, and any home owners association might quickly kill most of the in-home businesses. People do no like the idea of businesses springing up next door and bringing a daily traffic of strangers past their door. Latin Americans lived the way they did out of necessity and because extended families were still economic in the hinterlands. The ideal American life in the 1970's was like Bonanza, with Pop, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe plus some women and children. The show had a sad tone to it without wives and children. People in the 1970's were trying to recreate that family isolation in the suburbs, but I think that may shift again to t...