Been reading the Good Book a lot recently, (yes THE Good Book) and particularly Nehemiah. The chapter talks about the City of David/Jerusalem and how basically the Jewish People would give 1/3 of their income, the first fruits and their children to the temple. This was in turn redistributed to the priests, the entertainers (yes the entertainers) and the laborers. While the money was given to the Levities to pay for services/wares. The Levities in turn gave 1/10 of their earning to the church which was basically the "emergency/repairs funds."

The entertainers got free food and payment so they could just entertain for God and didn't need to "work in the fields" to provide for their families.

That's a pretty self sustaining society isn't it? Pretty cool right? Be kinda nice to have that community in our day and age right?