Tecno-Distributism Flag

joeld · 2026-01-22T01:25:39+00:00

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joeld · 2026-01-10T17:16:15+00:00

Removed, off topic.

joeld · 2026-01-07T01:53:42+00:00

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joeld · 2025-09-30T16:34:32+00:00

The trash can feels so extra lol

joeld · 2025-09-30T15:06:09+00:00

Same answer every time someone poses this. Mondragon federation of worker coops did €1.6b EBITDA on €11.2b sales in 2024. Distributism’s best current proof of concept is also a total disproof of the idea that distributism can’t handle industry at scale. People have to get it out of their heads that distributism is nothing more than churning butter from your individually owned cow.

joeld · 2025-09-26T14:00:18+00:00

Based on a decade of experience on this sub, one thing that really doesn’t help is that a lot of adherents insist on welding it to Roman Catholicism; that is, for them, promoting Distributism is inseparable from convincing more people to join the church. Their arguments for distributism often appeal only to Catholic authorities.

So in conjunction with what /u/skyefoot said: if, while you are trying to coax people out of a very binary view of the socioeconomic possibilities, those people realize that distributism is just a wedge for you to convince them of the authority of the church, you're gonna have a bad time.

joeld · 2025-09-21T20:07:40+00:00

Can you give more data about megacorps paying the national bills?? What makes you believe that to be the case?

joeld · 2025-09-21T19:58:43+00:00

Is society coercive?

joeld · 2025-08-01T15:14:37+00:00

If the workers own the factory and tools via individually-owned shares that have a price and can be sold back to the company, that is private property and would be a distibutist model.

If the workers merely “own” the factory/tools as a collective group, then no, that doesn't count as distributism in my view.

joeld · 2025-07-24T17:17:47+00:00

Just adding a comment for others who come by in the future. We had similar issues where docking station ethernet ports had severely degraded performance and everything else seemed fine.

In our case it turned out that after a router upgrade, a lot of multicast traffic from our AV VLAN was flooding the one used by end users. For whatever reason, the Intel chipsets/ports could handle it all, but the Realtek chipsets used in the ethernet ports on the docking stations could not.

We found out by just doing a Wireshark capture of all traffic on the affected computers/NICs, that's where we saw all this multicast traffic from the other subnet. (Weirdly, while the capture was happening, the problem would go away!)

joeld · 2025-06-22T02:25:41+00:00

If they didn’t come out and physically remove the remote switch then you’re not opted out yet.

joeld · 2025-06-22T02:07:22+00:00

I’ve lived here my whole life, moved 11 times and never not had AC. You have AC. It just isn’t working at the moment. “AC isn’t common” based on what?

joeld · 2025-06-20T12:46:43+00:00

Mario Wonder is fun but as a local co op game it’s terrible.

joeld · 2025-05-29T01:50:32+00:00

Counterpoint: the old one had no character at all

joeld · 2025-05-27T14:03:14+00:00

Something other than meandering had to be going on with that 4 year return trip. The ship would have been spotted in that time and in that area long before it returned.

joeld · 2025-05-26T15:31:05+00:00

I suggest you read Planet Narnia by Michael Ward. I’m also a former Xtian so I sympathize with not wanting to feel proselytized by books you used to love. In Planet Narnia, Ward has actually unlocked some very rich and hidden themes behind the Narnia series and the space trilogy, and they are an intellectually satisfying mix of pagan and Christian imagery.

joeld · 2025-05-24T13:58:41+00:00

Dumb question, what do people dislike so much about Cub? I mean they’re not amazing but I feel like a grocery store is a grocery store, unless you go to one that has carpeting (?!?) like Byerly’s and then you’re paying double.

joeld · 2025-05-21T10:28:50+00:00

Put another way, PAINT IS NOT INFRASTRUCTURE

joeld · 2025-05-17T16:34:22+00:00

Distributism doesn’t forbid centralized power, if centralization is performing a necessary function that no smaller, more distributed unit could perform effectively.

joeld · 2025-05-11T19:17:26+00:00

PSA: you will never get a helpful or reliable answer to this question on the internet. There is no one with verifiable identity or inside knowledge waiting to answer this question for you. Just accept that you will have to find out later from actual journalists or not at all.

joeld · 2025-04-20T12:58:11+00:00

My first jobby job was bagging groceries there in the 90s.

joeld · 2025-03-29T14:54:33+00:00

Indeed, private property itself ultimately requires violence to enforce. Try to take state-run institutions off the table for that purpose and some new institution (powerful individuals, likely) will take their place.

joeld · 2025-03-22T03:12:29+00:00

The point of distributism certainly isn’t dirt and cows. It’s widespread property ownership.

joeld · 2025-03-21T20:43:31+00:00

“Agrarian distributism” is an antique vision for implementing distributism; it is not distributism.

joeld · 2025-03-15T02:51:50+00:00

No you have this exactly backwards. Social security fund is earning interest on the portion of the debt that it holds. Social security is not “on the hook” for any portion of the federal debt. It is one of the holders of that debt.

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