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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You seem to be saying that Max Weber made a big mistake in locating the source of the religious dogma in Luther and Calvin rather than in the subsequent beliefs of the fine German and Scot burghers. If they believed that the Elect could be identified by hard work and apparent piety, and then worked hard and were pious, doesn't that show their culture giving them an economic advantage. So the culture was influenced by the underlying economic realities, but what else is new? Would the Sioux have felt the same way about buffalo if they had lived in the Everglades?
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Actually what I was saying is that the burghers wanted the people to work hard and be pious (read: don't get all drunk and break things or be too sick to work six days a week), so to get them to act accordingly, they couched it in religious terms.
The culture was manipulated to bring about an economic advantage without having to provide real-world incentives, like a living wage, etc.
