"Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote, > It is my understanding that our concept of "time is money" > is a modern idea which was discovered/invented over > a millenium -- but I can't find the references at the moment.
Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748. Cited by Max Weber as the epitome of the capitalist spirit in "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". "Remember, that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides." Weber argued that what he termed the protestant ethic was a secularization of the notion of a spiritual calling, which under Catholicism denoted a hierarchy that placed clergy above the laity in the degree to which they were worthy of grace. One *might* think of it as a democratization as long as one chooses to ignore the way that hierarchy is smuggled back into the concept at each stage of its secularization. In other words, instead of democratizing grace the evolution has simply drained the grace from hierarchy. Amazing. We are left with nothing but hierarchy, plain and simple. Tom Walker
