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[[National Review]] reported in 2012 concerning the [[United States]]: "The more hours Americans work, the happier they report themselves to be. Only 11 percent of Americans say they wish they could spend a lot less time on their jobs." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293615/liberalism-immoral-mona-charen Is Liberalism Immoral?], National Review, 2012</ref>
[[National Review]] reported in 2012 concerning the [[United States]]: "The more hours Americans work, the happier they report themselves to be. Only 11 percent of Americans say they wish they could spend a lot less time on their jobs." <ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293615/liberalism-immoral-mona-charen Is Liberalism Immoral?], National Review, 2012</ref>
== The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
''See also'': [[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]] and [[Protestant cultural legacies]]
[[The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism]] is a highly influential 1905 book by sociologist [[Max Weber]]. The ethic consists of hard work, disdain for leisure, competitive spirit and a profit motive to provide an incentive to achieve.
Despite being an [[Atheism|atheist]], [[Harvard University]] historian [[Niall Ferguson]] declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the [[Protestantism|Protestant]] societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."<ref>[http://blog.tifwe.org/the-protestant-work-ethic-alive-well-in-china/ The Protestant Work Ethic: Alive & Well…In China] By Hugh Whelchel on September 24, 2012</ref>
== Four definitions of work==
== Four definitions of work==