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Distributism
I've seen some extremely confusing takes on distributism over time, but I'll define it strictly as a wider distribution of capital property
(This viewpoint was conceived before our current era of global technological dependency, where it was more possible to be a landowner who owns their own business, and might encourage one owns things like land rather than rents it at interest, etc.)
Have you given any thought to this viewpoint?
It developed out of Catholic social teaching but as I've defined it, it's not really related to Catholicism necessarily (as I've seen other people treat the subject, they seem to exclude a non-Catholic way of looking at it).
interesting, I hd not studied this, but concepts of property ownership theory came up in a Bible and the law class years ago. Franciscans and Dominicans had different thoughts on property ownership rights.
I like how in ancient Israel the land was divided by tribes and families within those tribes. In the USA, I think we are having a controlled termination of the debt-based FED system. With this sort of “Jubilee” wiping out a lot of the debt, and removing the Deep State’s feeding mechanisms of masses of migrants and gangs, we open theway for reasonable prices again + opportunity to MAGA &MAHA.
In the transition period, I think a lot of the attorneys who make life terribly difficult (taxes, estate planning, health system laws) they go bye-bye & get replaced with an AI simplified systems.
The goal: a more just American system, opportunities without the frauds of the last century, or millenia, depending on how far back we want to go.
Assets do not get owned without being paid for and maintained. Assets arent cheap. One doesnt simply make Assets. Distributism would sound cool in theory, much like communism, but it doesnt work in practicality because there will always be the ones who dont get it because you cant produce enough of it. For example, black Friday deals, the item i wanted sold out almost instantly. The producer couldn't make enough of them regardless of their intent to distribute cheaply, and that wasnt even close to a "Asset".