53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There Ideological Resonance?
I think the thing that I don't find convincing is that it's so focused on middle class people and on like capitalists themselves. It's all about the proclivity to save, which is a very odd set of claims. If the precondition for that is a set of social relationships in which workers are compelled to like work for you, then there's no money accumulation that's going to make capital appear. He seems to kind of admit that like he only spends two paragraphs on this because like it's all about middle class businessmen. And when he at the end of the book, he makes this gesture towards whether or not this kind of these set of claims can be described the views
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