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Distributism, being a Catholic belief, is ultimately based on the principal of subsidiarity, which is a Catholic social doctrine stating that all matters of government ought to be handled at the most local level competent and able enough to deal with the matter. Thus, while national defense may best lay with the national government, the trash pickup schedule is best decided by local processes.

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I don’t see why Catholism is emphasized so much in your answer. The concepts discussed exist independently of Catholism, have their roots before Catholism and looking at them from a religious angle confounds more than it clarifies.

It’s based on the writings of Catholic popes. I think calling it Catholic merely gives credit to its recent originators.

It’s just the same as calling a school of economics Austrian, or a branch of psychology Freudian.

Additionally the foremost apologists for Distributism, G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, were Catholic writers.

Becahse distributism was first explained by catholic scholars. In order to understand them you must understand their catholicism

But you can translate this to corporations, and consider that large corporations are more efficient than small ones. But large corporations have downsides, so the optimum is somewhere in the middle (?)

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