[UA] What Do You Believe?

[Cassady Toles]

On 15 Jun 2001 12:48:07 -0000, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  How they explained successful businessmen of other faiths and those who
clearly sinned to obtain money, like the mafia, I don't know.
  
At the time there was no mafia.  There were ruling landowners in Italy, but
not in the US.  This was also pre-industrial revolution in the US, where
there was no nobility.  Thus, the only ways to have money in the US was to
be a merchant or a laborer and work a lot.  Calvinists thought working a lot
was inherently good.  The idea of backhanded merchants cheating investors,
etc. doesn't really become possible in the modern sense for over 100 years.

Modern Calvinists feel slightly differently, but it's a long story.

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