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Monks were mostly self-sufficient in a feudal economy though. The equivalent is probably some commune where the collective occasionally publishes a zine.
Only small minority were, as most monastic orders were founded to pray and only in some monks laboured. Overwhelming most of monasteries were funded with some kind of backing, so they either had serfs or some other income as fiefs. Both catholic and orthodox churches were nearly always biggest landowners in their countries.