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| Release date | November 2010 |
wait, where in the capitalist manifesto does hard work = rewards and riches??? i'm pretty fucking sure my ancestors workings 14 days on the farm worked harder then anyone here. Yet i'm probably 30 times richer than my ancestors. Why is that?
Well sir, to find that answer, may i humbly suggest a book or 3 for you to read. (its part 2 of a 3 volume set, all of which are great)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004GTMAZE/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
> couldn't the contrasting behaviour of Christians in rich and poor countires be used as evidence to support the argument that socio-economics are ultimately what is important
Yes, but there's a pretty compelling argument that part of the reason the industrial revolution started in the UK rather than, say, Jordan or even China, is because Christianity and particular Anglican Christianity created a zone of privacy and dignity around the individual. The idea of human rights comes from the same tradition.
That probably sounds like gobbledy-gook. Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Dignity goes into great historical detail.