Your opinion of Distributivism?

[Gustaf]

I read the opening summary and we already have that.

[Gustaf]

I read the opening summary and we already have that.

Not quite. Soon, though.

That's not what I was talking about. I was referring to private stock ownership.

[Gustaf]

I read the opening summary and we already have that.

Not quite. Soon, though.

That's not what I was talking about. I was referring to private stock ownership.

That's not Distributivism. Distributivism is when you own the tools you use to make things - like a person owning a machine that can create a stereo, rather than working at a factory where stereo equipment is produced. Currently emerging technologies are allowing us to approach this goal at a rapid clip.

Eh. And what's the point of owning the tools you use? Why would anyone care about that? You think technology will erase economies of scale completely?

[Gustaf]

I read the opening summary and we already have that.

Not quite. Soon, though.

That's not what I was talking about. I was referring to private stock ownership.

That's not Distributivism. Distributivism is when you own the tools you use to make things - like a person owning a machine that can create a stereo, rather than working at a factory where stereo equipment is produced. Currently emerging technologies are allowing us to approach this goal at a rapid clip.

Eh. And what's the point of owning the tools you use? Why would anyone care about that? You think technology will erase economies of scale completely?

Oh, I don't know. Being free to set the standards of your own working conditions, your salary rate, your preferred type of product, reconnecting with your local economy of scale, minimizing the environmental impact of production, and working at your own leisure is - shall we say, irrelevant? Factory work is infinitely preferable to entrepreneurship; being told what to do is comforting.

None of the things you mention are necessarily contingent on owning your own tools. I could start my own company and then rent the tools I use for my job and magically I would have every benefit you mention.

As usual, you are more engaged in rethoric than in thinking. You seem to have trouble with engaging in proper intellectual debate.

And you are going to have to explain what one's local economy of scale is. It sounds like something you just blurted out to have something to say in response to the question you failed to answer - do you think economies of scale will disappear?

And much of the rest you say is nonsensical. You seem to have bought into the old marxist idea that workers get exploited by capitalists, a notion that has rather weak support in economic theory and empirical studies. There is no reason why individual workers would necessarily get more money.

You also don't explain why this new technology would mean that people would be safe from government monopolies. The tecnology doesn't bring that about by itself, and capitalism as an ideology is also opposed to it.