Commuity - What does it take?

[Scythe13]

The word community is derived from 2 words. Common, Unity. Very communist in my view.

For me, it's a group of people whom add value to each other's lives. For example, value can be financial wealth, increased spare time, higher quality of X, safety, etc. Usually one person will make an exchange of one thing for another, e.g. wealth exchanged for spare time. In this instance a person buys a table so that they don't have to spend hours making it themselves.

List of 'required' skills for community to function.
Farming
Shelter Building
General Labour
Medical
Military/Militia
Clothing
Engineer (to come up with solutions to problems)
Education
Peace Keeping (think police, judge, etc)
Mechanic (if going higher tech)


Skills for each member:
Fire making
Food Prep
Basic education (reading, writing, mathematics)
Creative thinking (creativity is what produces technological advancements)
Physical combat
Living off what nature provides

For me, those are very important skills to have, and should pretty much cover all bases for 'survival'. Also, it's the basic requirements for the Spartan Empire, and the Babylonians, and the Mayans, but somehow they all died off too, so maybe there is no such thing as a solid community.