Archive for Category: "Tech"
Industry: A Distributist Solution Part II
While most large-scale industries reduce the level of ownership in our society and treat labor as a cost instead of a partner in the production process, cooperatives are the Distributist answer to increase widespread ownership of the means of production.
Industry: The Distributist Solution Part I
Economists advise our congressional leaders, the heads of banks, large-scale industry, and corporate goliaths about economic shifts and their impact on industry because they are under the impression that as a nation we rise and fall according to industrial production.
Three Acres and a Penguin: Why Distributists Should Try Linux
Linux is exciting because it turns the proprietary model on its head, and it works . Linux is often called open source or simply free (or libre) software ; the basic idea is that you can read the code, tweak it, add to it, re-release it, even charge money for it.
Protecting the Plutocracy: Intellectual Property
Ostensibly designed to protect intellectual property, the DMCA provides for civil and criminal penalties for the violation of the intellectual property rights of others.
What’s Wrong With Free Trade and Outsourcing?
Anyone criticizing the doctrine of Global Free Trade is called ignorant, isolationist, and protectionist. The sad truth is that many people in the US remain ignorant of the extent to which the products they enjoy are made by people working in conditions we would not tolerate.
Mondragón: Rendimiento pasado y potencial futuro
En la opinión de Arizmendiarrieta, la solución en la esfera económica era simple. Los trabajadores deberían contratar al capital y no viceversa, de tal modo que se le permita a los trabajadores asumir la propiedad de sus lugares de trabajo y convertirse en dueños de sus propios destinos.
A Still, Small Voice
Take away the family from the heart of society and you are left with a heartless hedonism. And since hedonism is selfishness without limits, it is the very antithesis of the self-limitation necessary for the restoration of economic and political sanity.
Free Cars for the Poor?
The poor need to get jobs in order to improve themselves. But before they can get a job, they need to have a car; but before they can get a car, they need to have a job to pay for that car.
The Education of E.F. Schumacher
He spent the last few remaining years of his life basking in the reflected glory of his best-selling book, secure in the knowledge that he had radically changed the outlook of millions of people. By 1977 his views had become so popular that he was invited by President Carter for a half-hour talk in the White House and the President was keen to be photographed holding a copy of Small is Beautiful.