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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The book is written as a counterstatement or compliment to what Marx was saying about capitalism. The people who celebrate the Protestant ethic are indeed misreading it, says Weber. When he founded in Calvinism, yeah, he actually paints a kind of cartoon of Calvinism. He finds it miserable Calvinists who are unsure of their salvation because God is inscrutable and none of us has any control over whether we are saved or damned.
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