Why is Everyone So Afraid Of The "Protestant Work Ethic"?

 

    One of the many reasons many people nowadays vilify or outright disown the idea of a "Protestant work ethic" mainly lies in the fact that many jobs are outsourced overseas or have been decoupled from the main source of its income, namely, the local community in which its been fortified or codified, you won't see many local carpenters or local mechanics since many smaller businesses have been overtaken by predator capitalists looking to make a quick buck off a small time owner, such as giving him a grant of money to buy his business and franchise it through many cities and states and even countries so that it becomes a multimillion dollar operation, and take its main objective of serving a small amount of people to serve people globally. Unfortunately someone's local diner or local car parts store is no longer lets say, there's "Ted" and "Fred", Ted and Fred own one of these businesses and know everyone's family by name, who comes in, who buys what, and generally are the people that one directly interacts with on the daily, weekly or monthly basis. There is that general sense of knowing the customer face to face and the general sense of community between seller and buyer. When these companies become national, or multinational, it loses that sense of knowing the customer as a human being and instead these companies are faced with dealing with what amounts to be statistics, for lack of a better word. People you may not know who might not be the same kind of ethnicity or religion as the one that your business was accustomed to dealing with and you are faced with dealing with people that may have different ideas of duties or imposts, such as celebrating different holidays. They may ask you to be open on days that, your community generally expects you to be closed since they are celebrating a holiday relating to one of their icons, but your new foreign investors expect you to service them regardless of what rites you might observe, or what your own people observe. They do not care about customs or rites because the only thing investors care about is you, yourself giving them a bottom line profit at the end of each quarter. Ted and Fred are now faced with dissolving their main beliefs in favor of the international marketplace and now have to service a world with conflicting beliefs and rites and services that to which they are not a party. Its unfortunate that so many people look at the Protestant work ethic which Max Weber took to task as an unfortunate leftover of Anglo imperialism, but what about us? Do we not have the right to designate all work as "holy"? We could, if globalism was not a factor. Hence, we should try to keep everything as local and community based as possible and put up barriers against foreign investors who try and decentralize our "states" and "cities" and keep Ted and Fred the same owners of what we know as the guys who know everything about our town and keep business a "personal" venture. Therefore, we must put everything we get from capital gains and reinvest the money in local parks, art galleries, music venues, libraries and other points of interest to make sure what's made local, stays local. That's the American way.

                                                                                                            J./Adolf Stalin