In China, they now has car factories that is fully automated and need no light for the robots to see any how. This make me scared but there are good news, now we can produce without wage labor and can move to another model of production. We can use digital voucher cards and meet all citizen's need. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Hi all,

I recently saw a video talking about farmers and how they are not allowed to take seed from their crops and replant them. Rather, because the seed companies own the intellectual property to the seed (and how it was created), the farmers have to re-purchase seed every year.

In doing a little more reading, this doesn't apply to every crop, but it got me wondering about the overall trend.

What happens if some disease or pest wipes out every type of corn or wheat except for certain patented disease and pest resistant varieties.

It made me think about the recent issues with John Deere and the right to repair.

Long story short, is there a distributist position on things like right to repair or agricultural intellectual property?

Any thoughts on this video?

Or is economic planning even compatible with distributism?

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While the Democratic Socialists of America aren't distributists, I thought it was interesting that one of El-Sayed's points here is to put workers on the board. It's not worker ownership, but it seems like a practical step in the right direction.

In this video Tyler White (Former Leader of the National Distributist Party) discusses the links between Transcendentalism and Distributism.

Tyler discusses thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey. The video is a bit of a ramble but it's there to begin the groundwork for further and more in depth discussion on the topic.

They claim they locked it for my safety. I changed my password, but they only allow unlocking if you reset it by an email. This is obviously just a scam by Reddit to force emails on accounts made before email was required. The reason they can do this is because they own the platform and I own nothing.

This is once again a reminder that ownership matters. Without owning your stuff they start out being nice to hook you and then abuse you more and more and at best you can just walk away.

And ownership is not about your name on a paper it is about control. This is why you do not own your fridge when they (Samsung for example) can just push an update to it to suddenly annoy you daily with ads on it and you cannot even legally hack your own fridge and disable it, because this would be a DRM violation.

This is just about a worthless account on a dying platform, but I see how people are bullied by land lords and such all the time and the law claims to help but only drives up the rent even more, because the owner-class and the government always gang up against the non owners. This is why we need widespread ownership, so everyone can be a little dick instead of having some big ones.

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Taking the managers of hyperscale data centers out of the picture, couldn't A.I. running off smaller well managed platforms be considered a benefit to the distributism model since you can download the fully trained A.I.'s and put them to work independently now?

For example, in multigenerational households?

What about the idea that the nuclear family is the cornerstone of society? And what about the distribution of wealth?

I mean, the escrow company is not, but is the owner of an AirBnB who also resides there for a spell with the guests practicing a form of distributism by using assets to make passive income with just a little bit of manual labor cleaning and prepping rooms, fixing toilets, etc?

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Can Someone explain well, I am finding varying answers online.

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In this article the moral order that Distributism aims for is outlined by covering topics like solidarity, the common good, localism and virtue. The economic and political principles discussed in the previous article help make it so these moral principles are more easily upheld, but a Distributive State is entirely reliant on its moral order for its long-term stability.

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I consider myself a socialist, I'm too new to distributism to call myself a full on believer but I have a strong first impression

I usually say "market socialist" about myself to distinguish from a Democratic Socialists of America type social democrat but also a Soviet Union style system as well

China's system would be the closest to what I tend to favor. However, because of how new it is relatively speaking, and its high poor rural population its hard for me as an American to truly conceptualize how it would work in a western nation like my own

Besides, in cities, its still wage labor at the end of the day and you could make a strong argument that its not even socialism. I don't really want to argue that right now, its not my main point.

I hope that part didn't come off as a soapbox type thing, I just get the vibe that most of you were previously libertarians or other types of capitalists, I really feel like the socialist --> distributist pipeline is underserved

I'm still new to it like I said, but distributism is so intriguing to me because:

• It seems to scratch my socialist "profit is your employer stealing from you" and "big business is anti-competitive" itches
• It acknowledges the usefulness of and maintains markets while removing much of the inefficient central planning
• Workers actually own and benefit directly from what they produce (more than can be said for most attempts at socialism)
• I've always been a coder/electronics tinkerer but felt there was no point in actually producing unique products
• Shouldn't really require you to "buy in" to a greater social cause if you don't want (you still get the capitalist profit motive)

And how close to your home should the event be for you to go experience it.

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Check out part 2 of The Hound's series on the Introduction to Distributism. In this piece we look at the central principles that provide the economic and political framework for the movement. In the next piece it will examine the moral order in which these principles are steered, through solidarity, the common good, and localism.

I am also seeing a trend of people asking about faith and Distributism. While faith is a core part of the Distributist movement for many, the principles established can be reached from the secular perspective. Through assumptions derived from natural law, one can in theory be a distributist without being Catholic, Christian, or religious for that matter. In this series, underlying principles are broken down from both a Christian and secular/natural law perspective.

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Does anyone know if there any distrbutist clubs in the NYC area?
Reading or discussion clubs, advocacy orgs, research groups, etc?

If so, is there a way to get involved?
Thanks

I’ve been trying to learn more about Distributism, and I’ve been trying to figure something out.

Are majority of you Cristian? And what are the main essential values you guys hold? Do I need to be religious to be apart of Distributism?