I am truly chocked and baffled by the number of volunteers they got for this project; especially in the states.
Looking at one of their articles on the matter, they stated that a large portion of the printing work was delegated to other locations than NY, thus, they did not need as much space as they did in NY. Also, it was stated that operation cost in NYC were expensive.
Since they didn’t need that much space, they could have sold some buildings. Than, with the sale's profits, transform the other buildings you already own to suit your needs! Operation costs? I don’t understand. Electricity and water would roughly be the same price and they don’t pay property taxes; what am I missing here?
Instead, they sold EVERYTHING and build a MINI CITY right next to a lake! How is this reasonable?
The obvious reason is that they cached in on the sale of ALL these high value properties. So than, how can they feel justified to require so much time from these volunteers when they could pay for it all? How many of these volunteers have put a pause on their lives and that of their family to contribute to that project over 4 years??
http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20150115/offered-themselves-willingly-in-new-york/
Some of these people have visibly forsaken their retirement plans for something that was not absolutely needed. It is one thing to help your religion in need, I can understand that. But when your religion considers your as disposable income in its overall business strategy, that’s just wrong.
How can so many volunteers be oblivious to this? I am truly shocked! Even when I was ALL IN, I would not have approved this.
Heck, I could have understood a scenario in which the UN seized the NY properties and we would have built something somewhere else. But this?? Its capitalism barely hiding behind Theocracy.
Probably all this has already been covered, but for some reason, it just struck me harder today.