Capitalism What Is it Good For? - Phillip Blond - We need a Catholic economy

[MoonAharshMistress2]

o shit...does this mean we have to join the Assemblies of Gad ? .lol.

[Childinfaith]

Distributism is what we can adequately called Catholic economy. Where the benefits of keeping things small, local, and fair far outweigh the injustice of the monopolized market we have today. The reality is our system has allowed for the radically unequal distribution of productive property and means of production. Only a few control the market and the capital. The rest of us are wage slaves. We rely on them for our well being and not on ourselves. Bests system? Yeah, right.

[MoDeeSeventyThree]

sounds like he may be talking about a system akin to Chomsky's social libertarianism?

[tubiejonny]

Ummm, wow. The only people that are anti-capitalism are the people unwilling to work. Get a job and maybe you will increase your standard of living.

[reinols114]

@tubiejonny - I agree with you to a certain extent, but raw capitalism ignores many that for one reason or the other can not provide for themselves. Christians must take care of these people not through governmental channels, this is socialism, but directly. We must also foment sensitivity to the (truly) needy and systems that equalize social-economical levels. Of course, if you work harder you deserve more, but everyone should have the same opportunity. This is what is missing.

[tubiejonny]

@reinols114 Agreed. However, bringing religion (also know as anti-education) into the mix is a step in the wrong direction. Religion has been the "hold up of humanity". Most world issues are created by the religious and then when they take steps to solve the problems they created, they get creditted with doing something good. Look at the aids programs in africa run by the catholic church....sure they are helping, but they created the problem by telling them that condoms are a sin...

[MoDeeSeventyThree]

@tubiejonny very rarely do I ever see a mature and intelligent conversation on Youtube, and someone like you has to blow it with such a juvenile and idiotic comment

[MoDeeSeventyThree]

@tubiejonny I have yet to see a true capitalist economy

[tubiejonny]

@MoDeeSeventyThree I don't know what comment you think is immature (I'm guessing you are a thiest and are unable to see the facts)....but I do agree that there has yet to be a true capitalist economy.

[MoDeeSeventyThree]

@tubiejonny the comment about anti-captialist are the ones unwilling to work; this is naive and silly; i'm actually an atheist; you show a lack of understanding of economic systems and the problems of the poor

[tubiejonny]

@MoDeeSeventyThree ...we'll, capitalism has its problems, but the only thing worse than capitalism, is every other system.

[stelistu83]

@tubiejonny The idea of one sistem, good for all peoples, it's just stupid. From this point of view, capitalism is just the same as comunism. Every people has it's own characteristics.Economy without morals leads to what we see today. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

[tubiejonny]

@stelistu83 Moral economy? I don't know what that means....but I do know when religious ideals are ever brought into any discussion, we are automatically talking about immoralities being passed off as moralaity....What is a Catholic economy? Is that when we sacrifice an economist and tell everyone that he died for our debts?

[stelistu83]

@tubiejonny Christian economy is that when one doesn't seek to make profit just for the fun of it. A christian economy would imply that people would buy, sell, produce, just enough to live a decent life, not to indulge in mindless consumerism. Christianity is a faith of modesty and self sacrifice. The economy of today has only one principle: everything is allowed if it makes you money.You obviously don't have a clue about what Christianity means, so I end my plea here.

[tubiejonny]

@stelistu83 You have ignored most of the central doctrines of christianity. You forgot the parts about killing people that don't share your beliefs, and condoning slavery, and treating woman as chattle. You forgot the parts about human sacrifice, genocide and tribalism. It sounds like you are just an advocate of communism. As christ said "give no thought for the 'morrow"....planning ahead is against the teachings of jesus. Maybe you just don't like working for the reward of luxuries.

[samuils]

Well that was quite illiterate. So you take corporatism or cronyism whatever you want to call it, then apparently they decide to call it free market Capitalism? Well I hate to break it to you kids, it is not. When Government intervenes and protects corporations it is no longer a free market Capitalism. Monopolies absent of government can not exist. And how is entry into the market place is too high? Or are we accounting for everything government imposed, again?

[traditionandhonor]

The distributist idea sounds good in theory, but I have serious doubts that it could be implemented in an organic, non-disruptive way.

[musico747]

I think it could. It would just have to start one small town at a time. The other economic/social theories that the secular world lives by are most likely not going to last much longer. (Less than 100 years) Then we will have to implement this strategy.

[GlobeNinja]

at 1:03 what are the tudor periods? and what are the enclosures he is talking about?

[broadleygreen]

The Tudor period was in England in the 16th century. It was the beginning of a time when common land was taken over by new rich class. Henry VIII privatised Church property. The Church rented land cheaply to poor people for their food needs and Henry took it away from the Church and gave it to private owners so that they could farm it for their own profit. This was a DISASTER for the poor!

[yegr80ne]

Yeah, bourgeois capitalism definitely got rid of the classes..

Bourgeois capitalism is a secularly veiled euphemism for class society + bureaucracy + general foolishness.

[mikezephyr]

bourgeois capitalism replaced feudalism.

'the catholic economy' is a religiously veiled euphemism for class society.

[broadleygreen]

No, the Catholic economy would eliminate profit and the waste of human effort and talents as well as natural, god-given, resources. Profit requires class exploitation, destruction and unbridled waste. Entrepreneurs were introduced to be legalised robbers.