#distributism

[disgruntledexplainer]

I love how Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum can pretty much be summed up as "Yes, socialism is awful (here are quite a few paragraphs detailing exactly why), but MAYBE if you started TREATING YOUR WORKERS RIGHT, people would STOP TRYING TO IMPLEMENT IT".

[msmarymillspaulos]

We lived a carefree lifestyle living off the land and sea - gardening, fishing and claming. I thought that we would be contributing to the misery of the world if we failed to rejoice in the sun, the moon, and the stars, in the rivers which surrounded the island on which we lived and in the cool breezes of the bay. I began to believe that the world would be saved by beauty.

Dorothy Day

American Journalist, Suffragette, Anarchartist

[linc9393]

Distributism emphasizes that property, production, and economic power should be widely distributed, owned by families, local communities, and small-scale enterprises, rather than concentrated in the state or giant corporations. Unlike socialism or communism, which centralize control over the means of production, this philosophy respects private property as a moral and civic right, ensuring that individuals and communities maintain control over the resources they need to live and thrive. Its focus on human-scale economics ensures that systems remain intelligible, accountable, and morally grounded, while its principle of equality of dignity guarantees that every person is treated with respect, regardless of wealth, role, or status.

[eternal-echoes]

I can't remember if this kind of business model was specifically mentioned in Pope Leo XIII"s Rerum Novarum or in any other encylical on Catholic Social teaching but it really does emphasize that man is not made for work, but that work is made for man.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Who’s gonna tell the diet fascist that Scandinavia doesn’t have like the best economy in the world because of a “Calvinist Protestant Work Ethic” and that it’s actually because they have a social democratic welfare system??? You know the most generous social welfare system, attempting to achieve equality across gender and class lines by providing extensive health care, education, housing, and child/elder care benefits to all citizens from the cradle to the grave? The one where child care is wildly available to ensure the long term wellbeing of both mother and child, and that the child is not in adulthood forced by poverty into criminal behavior or drug use? You know, the one with the lowest crime rates across Europe???

I mean like this sounds incredibly Christian, but it’s more Catholic than Calvinist. You know, Catholics? The ones who gave the most amazing social teaching? The ones who invented liberation theology? You know them???

[spann-stann]

[just-a-blog-for-polls]

Which economic system is the best (or least bad)?

Capitalism

Distributism

Socialism

Communism

Something in the middle that combines features from left and right

Something else

I don't know

Voting ended onSep 1, 2023