See: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic It should be noted that there was 'work ethic'

See: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic It should be noted that there was 'work ethic' thinking around before Martin Luther showed up, but it's just that Protestantism turned the dial to 11: > Andersen et al found that the location monasteries of the Catholic Order of Cistercians, and specifically their density, highly correlated to this work ethic in later centuries;[18] ninety percent of these monasteries were founded before the year 1300 AD. Joseph Henrich found that this correlation extends right up to the twenty-first century.[19] Even if Luther hadn't shown up, no doubt there would have been something else that would probably have achieved similar things: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren_of_the_Common_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brethren_of_the_Common_Life