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The objective and need to hold a job and make money overrides the frictions and fractious problems, that people perhaps cannot get beyond when living together.
A great aid to cooperative endeavors is the absence of individualized progressive objectives, wherein success and objectives of the individual is more important than the group, and where this individual is only using the situation as benefits some personal goal down the line. This may be one of the primary reasons that progressives in general have such a difficult time maintaining long term cooperative relationships outside of the workplace. In cooperative living situations an understanding of group dynamics may be helpful such as the
four basic stages of groups. Stage one is acquaintanceship. Stage two is conflict
to establish pecking order. Stage three is a cohesive group that is a clique and tends to shun outsiders that may disrupt the order of the hierarchy. A cooperative group effort will want to proceed along the lines of the fourth stage, in which the individual acts in the interest of the whole, seeks to help other members of the group, and will play roles towards that end. This last attitude is a good practice
for the interaction of the Minimalist in every encounter, as involving friends, strangers and enemies.
An aid to the Minalmist lifestyle is the co-operation of as many people as possible, as a network of information. Information is always freely shared. This information is of every possible kind, but is especially helpful concerning things like finding housing or jobs, discount stores, cheap and alternative medicine, or home-made products, for instance instead of using expensive store-bought household cleaners, learning that various combinations of ammonia, rubbing alcohol, dish detergent, white vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide or trisodium phosphate may do the job. Information is useful in learning things
like ways of cheap but nutritious meals such as oriental dishes, methods of dressing in various weather conditions, helpful and possibly harmful medicines,
or the possibility of harmful chemicals found in purchased products.
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