When Weber tried to explain the uniqueness of modern capitalism in The Protestant Ethics, he first separated capitalist management from profit-seeking itself. A rationalized capitalist operation consists of two elements: disciplined labor and disciplined capital input. They all stand in deep contrast to traditional types of capitalist activity. The meaning of the former can easily be explained by the experience of those who established modern organizations of production in communities that knew nothing about them in the past. Consider an employer who introduces piece-rate wages in order to increase productivity, whereby workers can expect that this will stimulate members of their workforce to work harder to increase wages. As a result, workers may actually be doing less work than before, because they are not concerned with earning the highest daily wage, but simply earning enough to meet traditionally given needs. A similar phenomenon exists for the wealthy in traditional social formations, where people who profit from capitalist operations simply earn money so that they can be used for such purposes: to buy material comforts, pleasures, or purchases that power. The regular reproduction of capital, which means the constant investment and reinvestment of capital for the purpose of economic efficiency, is unfamiliar to traditional types of business activities. Associated with the latter is a very clear vision: the accumulation of wealth for its own sake, not for the kind of material rewards it helps bring. "Man must make money in his life, and he must take profit as the ultimate goal of life. Economic profit-making activities are no longer subordinate to man as a means for man to satisfy his own material needs. According to Weber, this is modern capitalism. spiritual essence.
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