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Discourse topic: Was the Protestant Work Ethic the world's first grindset?

12:59 AM · Aug 12, 2026

Chinese civil service exam culture might have preceded it but I know less about that.

Josef Pieper cited a Greek philosopher, Antisthenes, as the world’s first workaholic. But those Protestants are up there.

my god, it's max weber off the high ropes with the steel chair