Max Weber had things to say about this Puritan ethic [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism https://en.wikiped

Max Weber had things to say about this Puritan ethic [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S... Also: "No person, householder or other, shall spend his time idly or unprofitably, under pain of such punishment as the court shall think meet to inflict" -- Bay Colony General Court, 1633.