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> The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while To the contrary, monasteries were very often at the nexus of trade, s
by danans 3y ago
> The problem is living 'off grid' is not new. Monasteries have been doing it for a while
To the contrary, monasteries were very often at the nexus of trade, serving as the middle-men between peasants who produced goods and markets in larger cities [1][2]. Monasteries were on every grid available in their day - road, communication, etc. They were even connected to social grids to recruit new monks.
1. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-europe https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1301/trade-in-medieval-...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yQ0VGuQDo&list=PL5opbjxUR5-1sshs2-ghD0d_LmWO6PZ0O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_yQ0VGuQDo&list=PL5opbjxUR5...
- yencabulator 3y agoMonasteries also had chaplains whose literal job was to interconnect with the outside world. A monastery near a city could have half a dozen chaplains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain