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Protestant work ethic, low corruption and rule of law as well as a primarily European demographic though Argentina was one of the weathiest countries in the world a hundred years ago and predominantly European dervived.

The same old lies again and again. There is nothing called protestant work ethic. Every culture works hard depending socio-economic factors not religious or racial. How did Japan with buddhist work ethic still kick some protestant ass? Or the modern day Koreans or Chinese or Indians? How is Germany(50% catholic) and France(mostly catholic) doing just as well?

So now with the rise of China and India, what happened to the protestant work ethic? Have the whites become lazy? China is the largest economy today. Does it make Chinese the hardest workers and make TAOIST/Buddhist work ethic the best? Asians in Americans are the most successful and many actually consider whites to be lazy. What happened to the famous protestant work ethic? Its just a lie. The generation of whites who grew up in relative comfort are lazy today compared to Asian Americans. Thats all.

Show your work. The ability to plan ahead ahead likely has a genetic basis. [b]Places like England where successful people had more children for many hundreds of years experienced genetic selection for desirable traits like this. [/b]Other parts of the world where tribalism was not replaced by the rule of law and we’ll functioning economies did not experience the same phenomenon. Nicholas Wade, NYT science writer, recently wrote an interesting book about this called “A Troublesome Inheritance.”[/quote]

While I have not read this book, I know plenty of wealthy people who are good planners, yet their children are not.  Do you think this is a a dominant gene?  Maybe the next generation doesn't always inherit the gene?  It seems like the bad planners would be the ones with more children?   :D [/quote]

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