Very often our cheap goods are produced because of low wages. It’s like making use of slaves— slave labor may be cheaper and thus slave-produced goods would be cheap, but this is unjust. The purpose of an economy is to allow everyone, producer and consumer (and most of us are both), to live in a decent and reasonable manner.

As to the question of mass production, the cost of some things might rise, but so would the quality. Many of the products of mass production are shoddy and need to be replaced frequently. The products of a distributist society would tend to be better and last much longer, because they are more carefully made and because they are produced with a real care about product quality, not just about how much the producer can sell and how much money he can make.

–Thomas Storck answering a question about Distributism. Read the entire post here.

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