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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company by svieira on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @08:47PM (#16270698)
Properly understood, Distributism is capitalism limited by an understanding of the purpose of capital. Just as there is no mathematical system that can prove all of its first principles, so there is no system of capital that can within itself articulate a just distribution of that capital.

The assertions of Distributism are that:

* Everyone has a right to private property (ad contra of Marxism) * That right to private property is not absolute (ad contra of laissez faire capitalism) * Laws should aim for the maximum distribution of the means of production, rather than the optimal throughput of productivity possible with those means (ad contra of if-it-is-not-100%-it-is-not-a-monopoly capitalism)

This is inspired by Catholic principles and promoted by Catholic thinkers, but it is certainly something one can come to without being Catholic.

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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company by pfisch on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:18AM (#16272828)
>Laws should aim for the maximum distribution of the means of production, rather than the optimal throughput of productivity possible with those means

Won't you just get run out by others who are focused on productivity and can beat you in trade and undercut your prices while delivering higher quality?

By a lot of accounts nomadic life was much better than early farm life. Didn't help the nomads in the end though.

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