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The thing being that the Protestant work-ethic comes off as completely ridiculous to anyone who's not a Calvinist or a secular raised on Calvinist values.

If intellectual ability is largely heritable, then both the left's PC moralizing and the right's Calvinist moralizing are bullshit.

In the United States, the working poor are considered deserving of their burdens in an immutable, moralizing, Calvinist way.

As Gato puts it, it all comes own to the Calvinist idea that only the elect and few are saved.

The industrious good behavior the Calvinist work ethic endorses makes success a little more likely, but it's nothing close to a guarantee.

One that - if I were to guess - originated from the Calvinist disdain for ostentiousness.

Got to love calvinist societies like northern europe.

(Here the Calvinist roots of old-school good Flemish capitalism start showing again, with careless disregard to any theory of supply-demand equilibrium.

I was brought up in a Calvinist society (Afrikaner).

Puritans believe in Calvinist predestination.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with him completely, but it is an interesting counterpoint to the martial beat of the calvinist work ethic we now march to.

I think this stems from a residual Calvinist assumption that poor people are the architects of their own misfortune and therefore can't be relied on to use money appropriately.

Capitalism doesn't mean "pay your employees out according to some made-up scheme of who's-worth-what," though the weird calvinist pseudo-capitalism we love in the U.

It would be the death of yet another piece of Calvinist moralist BS -- along the same lines as "the poor are just lazy," etc.

"We're old and can't work anymore" is the excuse used to publicly justify finally being allowed not to work anymore in a Calvinist-capitalist culture.

[with] only two employees: a man and a dog", and at that stage I believe that there would be no imperative for humans to work (unless they choose to, or have a deeply ingrained Calvinist work ethic).

To clarify - John Brown was an American, with a Puritan/Calvinist background, born to fairly humble circumstances.

While some Calvinist-style Christians believe in pre-destination [3], they're in the minority.

These neo-Calvinist arguments are absurd (and cribbed from the 1880s), and the sprinkling of the efficient market hypothesis on top doesn't make them any better.