What I'm proposing is not communism, where ownership is held by the state. In fact, what I'm proposing is starkly different. I'm proposing the direct ownershi

What I'm proposing is not communism, where ownership is held by the state. In fact, what I'm proposing is starkly different. I'm proposing the direct ownership of automation technology/companies by the workers themselves, not by their government. This is in keeping with a political philosophy called distributism, which advocates for the widest possible (private) ownership of productive property. Proponents of distributism typically view both capitalism and socialism as systems that tend toward a small number of people holding power over a large amount of capital. (In the case of capitalism, super wealthy investors, and in the case of socialism, government officials.) They see widespread private ownership of productive property as a way of neutralizing the dangers of both Big Business and Big Government.