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[Someone claimed 'Distributism' supposedly does not work no a large scale. https://www.reddit.com/r/distributism/comments/18w657s/distributism_and_scale/]

Why does Distributism (which with I mean, everyone has a right to land,
and (ideally) businesses are not allowed to be extremely large) not work
on a large scale ? It is, on the contrary, well suited for a large scale, because it is a stable economic system of trade.

Capitalism (everything is traded, including land, limitless Capital accumulation, etc) on the other hand will grow more out of control
in a larger setting, because eventually all power has centralized
(raw Capitalism). The bigger the Nation, the worse the disaster,
because the more extreme the power centralization and the size of the impoverishment. Bill Gates was said to own half the agricultural land
in the USA, and the USA being half a Continent, is an example. One man
owns half the agricultural land in a Continent (North America). It will
get worse and worse.

Communism politically centralizes all control. If the size of the de-facto Sovereignty is a small village, like a small village declaring itself
a Commune, the chances that it will go well are much higher if people
know each other. When the size becomes larger, things become more and
more difficult. One Commune where everything is political, works fine
for one family and is even their natural mode of existence, whereas it
is a disaster on a scale of millions of people.

To allow all to have their right to land however, to have a dynamic
economic around trade while making sure no company becomes too big,
the organizing principle is trade. Trade works on any scale, and is more efficient on a large scale. Secondly, in a system of general private land ownership for free and by right - for example we have the same Nations
as we do now but rather than being Capitalist with Socialist measures
to prevent the worst (mixed economy) they distribute the land to all -
the social system (safety net, welfare) is likely to ask people to at
least try something on their land if they need assistance. More people
will engage in upstart businesses. While free land could be created
anywhere, and could even take an additional special form as office space
(so that you own both raw land and especially in cities 'space' could be created as rooms also), there exists now an element of wanting to live
nearer to your land. It is possible that this pressure causes people to
stop flocking to make cities larger and larger, making the entire Nation
more habitable in the long run.

Dividing land between 10 persons of 10 Million persons, it is the same
job in both cases. Running a land distribution system is probably about as difficult as running a Capitalist trade system, where you also constantly
need to keep track of land ownership in a special registry.

Since it seems to be the opposite of what you are claiming, Distributism (meaning, a free land right for all and hopefully no extremely large businesses), is the one system which is well suited for a large
scale. Indeed, no other system can even function for a species who is practicing fixed land use (farming and animal keeping). Distributism is
the only answer, I'm sorry to say, it is also the only natural answer
to the economic problem. All other modes of economy will eventually no
longer exist, if humanity is to make a success out of it's existence.

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[Relevance to SCJ: to distribute the land to all is one of the laws in
the Torah. Under Jehoshua ben Nun, following what was given through
Moshe Rabbeinu, the Israelites immediately set about to distribute the
land by right to everyone (apparently 600 000 people or more), after
they had conquered the land. The land was divided and then given by
lottery. The land could never be sold (in perpetuity), but it could be
rented out for a value relating to it's crop yield until the next Jubilee
year, at which point the land had to return to the previous owner /
family. The Jewish people famously 'forgot' about these laws, which
played a role in their various exiles, including the current one. The
Jewish people still need to return to this practice, or face near or
complete extinction either by death or assimilation.

People and Jews think they can freely choose. That is in the end just
as true as you have a choice between jumping off a cliff, or not doing
it. You have a choice, but you don't if you want to live. It is laughable
how idiotic the world is, with perhaps 2 Billion people laying claim
to the work of Moshe Rabbeinu in one way or the other, and nowhere is
anyone distributing the land to all by right. It is a world of dishonest
retards. Humans are ruled top down by the rich and greedy, and bottom up
by worshiping the rich, the grand alliance between the retarded slaves
on the bottom and the super rich criminals in the top. The retards do not
understand that war, Tyranny, corruption and poverty are all consequences
of their land market policies. While not everything will be solved by
a right to land, things should overall become significantly better,
perhaps even 80% better or so on the issues of war, poverty and Tyranny.
It will start to work better in the long run, as humanity learns what
they should already have been comfortable with for thousands of years.
Time seems to be up on the planet of the retards. The ignorance cannot
go on with modern technology.]

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