Wages, insurance, taxes, and resources for the construction, that drained the money that we were investing in the building. The young people in the 60's were more idealistic and generous with their time. Then the country changed and moved towards materialism so there was less interested in what we were doing. It was against the grain of what society was doing. Paolo Many dropouts from schools.
People quit school for a few years and wanted to see what was going on in the world.
I always thought this is a complementary to academia. You go to the university where you learn, the academic terms, and here we go to the most empirical experiences. We are not very selective because there are not so many people want to come, you know. We are open to everybody. We have many volunteers from Japan.