system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Narrator: It's not real.

Distributism is one of those economic and social theories that can be summed up like this, "If we radically change human nature, social mores, and ignore thousands of years of human history we can reach Utopia"
gpt
Yeah.

Its very hard to have a 'the tradesmen owns his tools' situation when his tools are multimillion dollar CNC machines the size if small houses, or reactors/processing units the size of swimming pools. 

In any practical plan of action for something like distributism, its going to probably be functionally indistinguishable from syndicalism, but without the left-leaning excisement of religion. Big unions (guilds) exercising power to control their economic output, but *totally* for the betterment of society at large and not just for the managers of the union.

I do enjoy seeing the Church's version of Utopia and it certainly is an ideal to strive for, same as the teachings and acts of Christ, but you also have to see it for the utopian idea it is, not as some easy to build blueprint for the perfect way to live.