• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Protestant work ethic is that others should work hard so I don’t have to. It’s slave driver ethic, management ethic, the ethic of bourgies who glorify the ideal of “hard work” as a reward in-and-of-itself (so compensation can be reduced)

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      11 months ago

      I’ve legitimately had to deprogram the whole “protestant work ethic” from a couple of coworkers and you could fucking see the gears turn in their heads when I pointed out all the ways in which it was incredibly wrong. Also apparently a lot of people in Scandinavia sort of just assumes that France is protestant, since France is rich and works hard, therefore they must be protestant.