the ability to have their own means of production.

So that sounds communism, but communism is the state controls the means of production.

Distributism is the vast majority of each individual person controls

the means of production. So one way to think about it would be, or a modern way to think about it,

would be a freelance economy. So, for example, my wife, who's a designer, she has, she can very easily,

or she has the capacity to control her own financial destiny because she owns the tools that she

needs to work, her computer, and also she has skills that she learned in school. I've got the same

thing with my DJ business. Exactly. But she can leave her job if she wants to and go and make a living

off the sweat of her own brow as sort of this small business or as this almost

as this individual freelancer.

The old model would be an agrarian society where every person had two acres and they had

enough.

Chesterton said distributism is two acres and a cow.

That was what he said.

Two acres and a cow for everybody.

You guys don't have that?

Sorry.

That if you could sort of man is more free when he has the ability to take care of his own needs as much as possible.

And whereas private property is distributed amongst the vast majority of amount of people as opposed to capitalism, where private property and the means of production is controlled by the wealthy few,

and communism where it's controlled by the state, or socialism where it's controlled by the state.

So they hold up the Middle Ages as a model and an experiment of distributism,

especially it was held by monasteries.

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