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Are you not familiar with the many ways in which distributism is already practiced and has been practiced during the past two centuries? Every federal credit u
by jawns 8mo ago
Are you not familiar with the many ways in which distributism is already practiced and has been practiced during the past two centuries?
Every federal credit union in the U.S., every worker's cooperative or consumer cooperative -- including biggies like Mondragon in Spain and The Cooperative in U.K. -- is organized in the way that distributism advocates.
There is nothing stopping us from electing lawmakers who recognize that society becomes healthier when the ownership of productive property is not concentrated, and who advocate for economic policies that promote more diffuse ownership.
- akramachamarei 8mo agoAt a surface level, an important difference between "distributism" and the supposed examples you provide is that those examples are each (correct me if I'm wrong) consensual, but it's not clear whether this "distributism" would be consensual. It smells like force would be required to keep people in line.
- consumer451 8mo agoI found this list years ago, do all of these companies qualify, or is there another requirement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...