“when we build our intentional community there must be jobs in the area”

Life needs to be sustained through work wherever people live . . . of course there’s work to be done.

There’s lots of work to be done to sustain the community. And it would be best to have most of people’s work involve that direct sustenance of the community.

But the community can’t be fully self-reliant/autarkic . . . so there has to be some money to purchase stuff from the system.

Most intentional communities currently just have people mostly working for income within the system . . . where there are five kinds of jobs:
. full-support professional positions (10%)
. full-support positions-for-institutions (10%)
. full-support non-professional self-employment (small businesses, trades) (10%)
. wage-slavery full-time treadmill work (50%)
. gig work (for youth and/or supplemental income) (20%)

Many enlightened/countercultural people who are interested in cohousing have in mind professional or upper-middle-class full-support positions: relatively high-paying, relatively high status, with flexibility, autonomy, good benefits, etc.

. . . which is problematic in the sense that that kind of employment only constitutes about 20% of the workforce. So when they think “there must be jobs near the location” what they have in mind is hyper-selective (unless they, nowadays, are able to work remotely).