Distributism kinda sounds like what we had when we were first building the Internet (and what we still have): we all owned the means of production (a computer) and everyone contributed their own ideas freely and as they saw fit (frameworks, coding languages, software etc) and we all loosely banded together to come up with our own "rules" to run things, which we now call protocols. Later on, yes..we monetized the brains by hiring them and creating FB, Google, etc, but in a way, it seems like a rough idea of "distributism" built the internet. I think those catholic popes were on to something.