Why Hutterites Cannot Fire Anyone or Hire Anyone?

I cannot fire anybody on this colony. Not for being slow, not for being bad at it, not for anything. And I cannot hire anybody either. The people who will be working here in ten years are already here and most of them are under twelve. So I keep the books for a farm whose workforce I did not choose, cannot change, and which grows by about four people a year whether there is anything for them to do or not. In this one I explain what that single fact does to everything else. Why this colony runs seven different businesses when the man across the fence runs one, and why it is not ambition. Why the enterprises we pick are chosen by the month they need hands in rather than the money they make. What five empty months in a prairie winter will make a community do. Then the scale, which people get wrong in both directions. And then the part I worked out backwards from my own ledger, which is that a colony does not split in two because it runs out of land or because people stop knowing each other's names. I think it splits because it runs out of jobs. I explain the arithmetic and I show you where it connects to the young men who leave, which is a video I made a while ago and did not understand properly at the time. I also deal with what our neighbours have to put up with, and I do not come out of that part looking especially good. My wife is the head cook on this colony and has her own channel. SOURCES The livestock figures come from a Natural Resources Conservation Board application by an Alberta colony, reported by CBC: more than 130,000 chickens, 1,300 ducks, 550 pigs, 200 geese and 140 dairy cows on one site. The village appeal against that approval, and the mayor's objection about being downwind and not consulted, same reporting. The Manitoba lagoon hearings before the Clean Environment Commission, 2026. Colony division at roughly 130 to 150 people is in every academic account of Hutterite settlement, including Simon Evans, Communal Societies 30:2, 2010. NOTE ON HONESTY The main argument in this video is mine and I say so on camera. Nobody has published the claim that a colony divides because it runs out of work rather than land. The population growth is documented, the division threshold is documented, and the connection between them is me doing a sum at my own desk and finding it holds. I have not put a figure on what a new colony costs. One number circulates and it comes from a single source, and land prices move, so I tell you it is in the tens of millions and leave it there. This channel is narrated by a composite character. The voice and image are AI-generated. Everything factual about Hutterite life in it is sourced above or flagged as my own reasoning.