8-Bit Philosophy: Is Capitalism Bad For You?

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

From the brilliant people over at wisecrack:

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Once again, they use Mario for this critique of capitalism (much like how they used it to describe the basics of Marxism).

This time, they discuss Max Weber and the link between Modern Capitalism and the Protestant Work Ethic. It actually makes a good case for how the Puritan/Calvinist origins of America have heavily influenced the hyper-individualistic nature of American capitalism and it's bootstraps-centric philosophy.

[Shinyos]

The thing that I find sad about this video is that, no matter how thorough the information is received, people will simply refuse to listen to anything that is contradictory to their own viewpoint. It is as if they are aggressively ignorant.

[hiac]

What about other denominations?

If I understand correctly, Weber said that a capitalism is a direct consequence of calvinism or puritanism. I live in a straight catholic country, so I am not sure, but are there other denominations like evangelist, anglicans, lutherans and so on.

I wonder why Weber connected only calvinist with capitalism.

I know that Germany, which in eighteenth century was one of capitalistic, is mainly lutherans and catholic. And I think Germany, specially before WWI, is good example of work ethic, development (look at chemistry in 1850-1900) and so on.