So you are not really talking about a community but a separate civilization partly or somehow isolated from the rest of civilization?

@ Skeptical

Sorry, was busy and then forgot to answer your comment. Better late then never, I think ...

So you are not really talking about a community but a separate civilization partly or somehow isolated from the rest of civilization?

Seperate yes, isolated no. The latter is not possible today anymore, anyhow. Seperate, just like the Amish for instance live seperate from the "normal" people.

This civilization would magically adhere to certain rules and limitations artificially but also somehow magically produce technology and leisure time.

There is no magic, like there is no magic in creating and adhereing to rules in today's society and to produce things in today's society.

We kind of have real examples of this in the world now - a good example might be native communities in northern Canada. These places are just a disaster despite massive money infusions and aid programs.

That is because they were pressed into that system and not by their own free decisions. And because they want to mimic "western" lifestyle, disregarding that the restrains from their locations, their history, the present laws and regulations they have to accept, and their exposition to the marketing indoctrinations do not allow that.

I am really surprised you are thinking corporation - a corporation is just modern slavery. At best it is a dictatorship. Who wants to live under a dictator being told what to do. At worse it becomes some fascist state where people live with no protections.

You miss the point, that in a corporation there are two types of people: the owners and the workers. You decribe the position of the workers, who work for the owners. In my concept, all participants are owners of an equal part of the corporation. No one ownes more then one other, no one make others do something. If you want something done, you need a majority vote - depending on what you want to change or to introduce something between the majority of all voters up to a 100% agreement of all people. No slavery here.

What are much better ideas are cooperative corporations/businesses. At least in this way you are only organizing a single narrow dimension of peoples lives within the framework of existing civilization. For some reason it is really hard to convince people to give up a real job to work for less at a coop and only if the coop makes a profit all while being run by people who couldn't get a real management job in the first place!

It seems, you haven't read major portions of this discussion (what is not surprising, looking at the extend of this). This community is not about jobs or profits, but about producing everything you need to live a healthy and fulfilling live. You do not need TV sets, cars or two dozen of shirts for that, and no financial advisers or insurance salespeople. You don't need salespeople of anything, since everything is given away for free and not sold at all. If it is decided that there will be a pound of bread for each person in the community each day, then the community will raise the grain for that amount, produce the flour and bake the bread, and you just pick up your fresh loaf every morning. You yourself will have worked in the provision of shirts, or of wood, or of meat, or cleaning the streets, or medical services, or whatever in exactly the amount as needed, what is picked up by those who need it for free as well. In the end, everybody gets everything needed, without paying money for it, but just contributing to the production of goods or services on a different point themselves. It is actually quite straight forward and easy, when you allow yourself to forget the ideas of money and profit. Everyone will live secure, healthy and virtually stress free, because they are looked after by the community, just as they themselves look after the community.

Even if you recreated all the elements of civilization (Money, language, mobility, police, judges, spiritual leadership, education, etc, etc) but enforced limits like everybody can only wear black clothes and tennis shoes all you will have is a very poor country constrained by its limited population and territory.

Is poor when you only have the amount of shirts you need instead of 3 times as much? If you don't have a car, even when you don't need one, while others have 3 they don't really need when they would organize their life in a smart way? Define poor, and take into account what is needed to live a good life, and define a good life in the sense of what is needed to live a healthy, safe and secure life.

I am not convinced at all that any of this makes any sense.

It does not make sense at all, when you stick to the paradigms of capitalism, or to what the marketing indoctrinators of those who profit from your working you ass off to make them richer by buying there useless and unneeded goods and services. They invest on average more than 100 USD per person in the world per year, what is more then half the planet has to live from, only to convince you that you need things you in reality do not need.

All this will come from increases in technology and personal wealth.

Where should this increase in technology and wealth come from? Growth? Just do the calculation yourself, what e.g. 3%, 5% or even 10% of growth each year (plus, when you want to increase the wealth of each person on average, you need to account population growth as well), for the next 50, 100, 500 or 1,000 years will to to the amount of things produced and resources used up. You will easily realize, that this idea is simply stupid, because it is impossible without colonizing our solar system (and later our galaxy) first.

You would prefer any discussion to have some kind of preface with a glossary? Besides that this is a quite strange requirement to allow a discussion to be started, could it not be, that definitions are an outcome, one of the results of such discussions?

I do not think that any of the major terms in this discussion is undefined. In the worst case, you look it up at Wikipedia or google a term, when you are not sure what is being talked about, or when there is a dispute between the meanings of words used. Unless you are not familiar with the english language. Than in fact you are right and all these pages of text are nothing more than random strings of characters. What, by the way, would be true for all texts in the opensourceecology domain.