The best economic system of earning money is certainly Capitalism. Therefore, according to Weber, Protestantism became married to Capitalism. Certainly this is not the only link between Protestantism and Capitalism. The Catholic church, with its lavish expenditures and turning the blind eye to its members who do the same, certainly encouraged the accumulation of wealth in that sense...
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The Catholic church, with its lavish expenditures and turning the blind eye to its members who do the same, certainly encouraged the accumulation of wealth in that sense. However, it was the "Protestant Ethic," as Weber terms it, that really possessed the Spirit of Capitalism. As the scriptures became available to the common man with the Reformation, the principles of discipline and humility, meaning not being rich in the world, were paramount...
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