…to create capitalism. And it was. concerted effort to destroy all this by the Puritans, who were the same people who, as Max Weber and others have taught us, were the first people to become completely obsessed with time and using all your time to the…

…strict command of a workmaster. The Puritans asserted that work was punishment but also redemption, initially coined by sociologist Max Weber. The term Protestant work ethic applies to the Calvinists and their crusade for hard work. Weber contended that…

…by sociologist Max Weber. The term Protestant work ethic applies to the Calvinists and their crusade for hard work. Weber contended that Calvinism had a significant impact in the emergence of capitalist systems. Calvinism promoted an undertaking of secular…

…are purely a modern phenomenon or have always been around. I suspect primarily the former, but I don't know. I wonder if Max Weber said anything about BS jobs. Are there BS jobs in today's China? Those things would be fascinating to know, but you won't…

…social thinkers, like... You know, you don't even have to talk about real weirdos like Nietzsche. I mean, what about anybody from Max Weber to Foucault, Deleuze? All these guys are kind of the heroes of the academy nowadays. None of those guys would have…

…these. Three different pieces of paper I have to sign and fill out in order to get paid. Now, I'm guessing that when Max Weber gave talks in Heidelberg in 1910, he didn't actually have to fill out three forms. And they were Germans. They were supposed…

…for point is that these Californian hunter-gatherers actually had a kind of work ethic, which is remarkably similar to what Max Weber classically described as the Protestant work ethic of Central and Northern Europe as a kind of spiritual, ethical foundation…