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  • Municipalities have a vested interest to partner with local community groups. They benefit because community groups can take a part of the workload off the shoulders of municipal workers including:
    • increased security leading to less crime
    • sharing un-needed items reduces waste
    • taking responsibility for public spaces can reduce fire hazard, reduce city labor costs, improve tourism

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  • In a South African context
    • helping neighbors in disenfranchised communities can
      • reduce conflict
      • increase security
      • increase food security
      • save money through donation of unused items

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Meador looks at how churches might offer better community as a balm to W.E.I.R.D. lifeways and toxic capitalism.

Why must religion be the source for these communal and social supports? Why can't alternate social structures or institutions handle these functions?

Is this why the religious right is also so heavily opposed to governmental social support programs? Are they replacing some of the needs and communal desires people in need have? Why couldn't increased governmental support programs be broader and more holistic in their leanings to cover not only social supports, but human contact and community building as well.

Do some of these tensions between a mixed W.E.I.R.D. and non-W.E.I.R.D Americans cause a lot of the split political identities we see in the last few decades? What is the balm for this during the transition?

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