A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN EDEN CITIZEN

Imagine waking up in a society where your value isn’t determined by your job title, your wealth, or how much property you own.

You wake up in an EDEN community with your family. You don’t begin the day worrying about income taxes, college tuition, or whether your children will be able to afford an education.

You have a job. You work 40 hours a week at $20 per hour—the same basic value placed on every person’s working time.

That’s $800 per week, or $41,600 per year, before considering the fact that EDEN is designed to eliminate taxes.

MORNING

You eat food produced through EDEN’s farming system, where family farms and local agriculture are important parts of the community.

Your children attend school without tuition.

Older children can eventually choose college or trade school without tuition becoming a barrier.

Education isn’t reserved for families who can afford it.

WORK

You go to work knowing that your labor is being compensated according to the same basic hourly standard as everyone else’s.

The purpose isn’t to make one person enormously wealthy while another struggles to survive.

Businesses operate to provide useful goods and services.

Profits are directed into the Societal EDEN Fund, which is intended to finance things the entire community needs—roads, schools, colleges, infrastructure, housing and other public necessities.

AFTER WORK

When your workday ends, your time belongs to you.

You go home.

You spend time with your spouse, children, parents, friends and neighbors.

You aren’t measuring every decision by whether it will make you richer.

The EDEN concept puts greater emphasis on family, community, stewardship and human relationships.

EVENING

You might work in your garden.

You might help a neighbor.

You might study.

You might simply sit down for dinner with your family.

The goal isn’t a society where everyone lives extravagantly.

The goal is a society where people have enough, contribute to society, and have a meaningful life beyond their jobs.

OLD AGE

After decades of contributing your labor to society, you shouldn’t be treated as though your usefulness has disappeared.

The EDEN family model envisions generations caring for one another rather than abandoning older people to isolation.

Children are raised by families and communities.

Adults contribute through their working years.

Older generations receive care and dignity.

THE BIG IDEA

EDEN isn’t simply proposing $20 an hour.

It’s proposing a different definition of what a successful society should look like.

Less greed.
Less class division.
Less economic fear.
More family.
More education.
More community.
More stewardship of the Earth.

The question EDEN asks is:

What if an economic system were designed first around the value of human life—and money second?

That is the lifestyle EDEN is attempting to create.