> Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated.[1] Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931).[2][3][4] It has influenced Anglo Christian Democratic movements,[5][6] and has been recognized as one of many influences on the social market economy.[7][8]
I've seen some extremely confusing takes on distributism over time, but I'll define it strictly as a wider distribution of capital property
(This viewpoint was conceived before our current era of global technological dependency, where it was more possible to be a landowner who owns their own business, and might encourage one owns things like land rather than rents it at interest, etc.)
Have you given any thought to this viewpoint?
It developed out of Catholic social teaching but as I've defined it, it's not really related to Catholicism necessarily (as I've seen other people treat the subject, they seem to exclude a non-Catholic way of looking at it).