GolfSierraMike

When people say your industry is mostly a massive price inflation scam, what do you think?

By this I mean the use of various "jargon" words in new mattress technology, most of which have little to no backing by real research. Or The uses of the same mattress at different distributors under different names, and the concerted effort made by mattress companies to make price comparison impossible.

Not trying to start an argument, but the majority of people I know under 30 agree that the matress buisness is artifically expensive and purposefully obtuse to enable greater profit margins.

While I love the idea of your community, and it sounds very progressive, your comments about home-schooled / UN-schooled children worries me.

Look, it perfect world homeschooling children should work fine, un-schooling in whatever stretch you mean also. But it's not a perfect world.

Is there any sort of checks and balances on the schooling within the community? Visits from teachers from local schools, standardized testings to bring them up against a national standard?

Along with this your comment about "not spending much time in front of screens" and "No phones in public spaces" is also concerning. Like it or not, being able to intuitively and easily interact with screen-based, symbol lead technology is an essential modern skill and one that will not be going away anytime soon. My nephew spends more than a quarter of his lessons interacting with either a tablet, or some sort of screen interface, and this will only continue once he moves into the real working world.

Now, the worst-case scenario here, which I will happily admit might not be your case but entertain it for me. You're preparing your children to not be capable of living any sort of life except for one within a screen limited technology limited commune. Even then, they could end up on the bottom rung of that commune system, working only as basic handymen with no transferable skills if they wanted to leave the commune.

This is compounded by their lack of screen exposure. Their ability to intuitively use a tablet or computer rivals that of the elderly, which makes them a poor fit for any office environment. Finally, this lack of screen exposure also damages their ability to find a social fit in groups. The complex and layered interaction of things like whatsapp, instagram, facebook. All of these are learned skills which these children will be severely lacking. Now while the jury is definitely still out on the benefit of social media long term, on a person to person scale having no ability to even comprehend the nuances of various social platforms and how they work is the same as being an adult in the 2000s and not understanding the difference between a landline and a telephone.

Thanks, and I hope I have not ruffled any feathers.

Because it makes people lots and lots of money.

Matress companies operate on car dealership mentality, we just don't view them that way.

Ayuuuuuuuuuup. Hence my somewhat blunt tone.

Don't see me going onto a mattress companies forum advertising reddit.

You got it in a nutshell.