How to Live
the ethic — what it asks of a life
Everything you have goes into the common fund.
Wages, savings, houses, pensions and social security cheques were signed over, and members lived on an allowance. It paid for the buses, the care homes and the Guyana land, and it also meant that by 1978 almost nobody at Jonestown had a passport, a ticket or money of their own.
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