The "Protestant" work ethic existed before Protestentism. See for example: > Andersen et al found that the location monasteries of the Catholic Order of Cister

The "Protestant" work ethic existed before Protestentism. See for example: > 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] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic#Criticis... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercians