Topic: And God said, "Thou shalt toil longer than the heathen scum."
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rabble-rouser
Babbler # 690
posted 11 June 2003 12:43 PM
quote: Just as Weber's 1904 visit to the United States convinced him that his thesis was right, anyone visiting New York today would have a similar experience. For in the pious, industrious United States, the Protestant work ethic is alive and well. Its death is a peculiarly European phenomenon — and has grim implications for the future of the European Union on the eve of its eastward expansion, perhaps most economically disastrous for the "new" Europe.