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"Price of eggs" jokes or "economic anxiety" jokes are political Calvinism. They're ignoring material conditions to say that the people who vote for the opposing party are just the Bad People. (hexbear.net)
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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People didn't really like that too much so you got these elaborations that eventually evolved into Prosperity Gospel.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah I was gonna say that sounds more like some weird American prosperity theology. Which idk I associate more with Pentecostalism? Or related movements

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Here's a good summary: https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/return-to-max-vebers-theory-of-development/

It all got jumbled up a bunch in the US so I might not have the family tree correct but there are common roots.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Okay I’ll have to go over that. I do know Weber and the Protestant work ethic, though I’ve never read it.