Are you a Wage-Slave?

Learn about Distributism, – the purported third way between socialism and capitalism, the Catholic way. Take the “Wage-Slave test” below:

1. be the sole or principal owner in the business in which you work?

2. own your own home, without burden of usurious debt?

3. have daily leisure to spend time with your family?

4. be the sole ‘breadwinner’ of the family, so that your wife is able to devote all of her love, talents and energy into your & her home and hearth?

5. able to school your own children?

6. able to afford basic necessities for civilized living, such as good musical instruments for your children?

7. schedule out most of the activities of the day, or are they directed for you, either by bosses or clients?

Apparently, if you scored less than a 7, and you work hard, then you are a wage slave! I guess this means that if you scored a perfect 7, then you are a wage slave owner?

To put it in the most pragmatic and simple terms, distributism seems to be about setting a limit on how much $$$ a man or woman may possess. In other words, Bill Gates would have quite the IRS bill.

A few weeks ago I might have said that we could never set limits like this – because such limits would have to be enforced with violence. However, since having embraced Militancy, I think that such limits could be enforced nonviolently (under strict conditions – grave situation, last resort, proper authority, etc). What a strange rabbit hole I find myself in.