ght not to reckon that only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides"(48). This was a problem for many people in traditional times. Time is money, and if people are not allowed to work longer, or work on days when others don't, like on a Sunday, then they are not making money. Throughout history one man will always try to beat the rest. It was shameful in traditionalistic views but that is what capitalistic society preaches to us. Work as hard as they can and they will make more than everyone else. If a man could work seven days a week at ten hours a day to make more than the man that works nine hours a day than he would.
             Why was it so hard for traditionalistic views to be changed into capitalism? Capitalism violates many human sensibilities in many ways. It violates some of our natural attitudes, provokes criticism, and troubles many people. For the medieval Catholic, purpose in this life is for salvation in the next. The Protestant said people could work in this world and use it for salvation in the next world. There was a virtue in amassing wealth. Work for the sake of work. Weber identifies the key turning point in the change of views of Martin Luther. Martin Luther came up with the doctrine of one's "calling." He looked at ordinary work as a task set by G-d. "The absolutely essential feeling of obligation to one's job, and a cool self-cont
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