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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics

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The Enlightenment and the Protestant Work Ethic

There's a lot of I think at least full question about like European and cultural superiority. It's obviously now very much out of date, but this was a strong belief amongst, you know, people in the 19th and 20th century often mixed in with a heavy dose of racism. A lot of folk people have some notion that Christianity or some other religion is more important than work ethic. We also have confusion over whether specific factors like Protestantism is important.

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