Community Roles

These lists are examples – different GDCs may agree different roles depending on terrain, cultural choices etc. – whatever GDCs agree are necessary for the community to survive and thrive (as long as minimally aggressive autonomy is maintained i.e. no unnecessary harm)

Groups of GDCs work together to oversee and maintain standards.

Primary Needs

  • Vegetable Growing – (everyone should take part in this)*
  • Clothing
  • Building
  • Plumbing
  • Electrics
  • Carpentry
  • Litter Picking – encourage civic pride

Secondary Needs

– can include anything a GDC deems necessary for a thriving society

  • Soap Making
  • Food Distribution
  • Artisan
  • Potter
  • Comedian
  • Story Teller
  • Baker
  • Artist
  • Physical Activities
  • Sports Coaches, Referees/Umpires
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Teaching – covering all things on these lists
  • Medicine – limited as community health improves
  • Vetinarians
  • Dentistry
  • Nursing
  • Community Book Keeping
  • Forestry
  • Environmental Recovery
  • Physiotherapy
  • Audiology
  • Midwifery
  • Gardener
  • Grave Digger
  • Park Keeper
  • Optician
  • Community Engagement
  • Care
  • Communications
  • Waste Disposal and Recycling
  • Cafe/Restaurant
  • Energy Production
  • Vehicle Mechanics
  • Tourism
  • Transport – Road, Rail, Sea and Air
  • Public Transport
  • Trade
  • Coastguard
  • Limited Police and Law

Unnecessary

  • Government
  • Finance
  • Insurance
  • Investment Brokers
  • Bankers
  • Estate Agents
  • Temp Agents
  • Service Roles
  • Office Roles
  • Armed Forces
  • Commercial and Finance Law
  • Any role where the primary outcome is to make someone else money

*for those who wish to eat meat, the minimally aggressive position would be for individuals to raise or capture, kill and butcher animals themselves and use all of the animal as hunters and people more generally would do historically.