| Comment | Obviously the catholics have much their own version of the same via a different route, but it's the Calvinist Work Ethic that is the source of this whole idea that only the working man who succeeds off the sweat of his own labour deserves (limited) rewards in life, and that everyone else is to be pitied and pulled down where possible. It's wrong to aspire, because that makes you a member of the aspirational classes.
You see it on this sub too whenever anyone mentions charitable causes, which immediately get bombarded with cynicism and disdain. Charity is weakness, because it results in people improving their lot in life without having personally worked for it. That's a very uniquely Presbyterian point of view. |
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