Blame the monks. In his "The Victory of Reason," Rodney Stark of Baylor reminds us that the Benedictines established thousands of monasteries which provided "business models" that were copied by the business establishments if the middle ages. His argument is that capitalism grew out of their endeavors. because work was an integral part of the monastic disciple, they began by farming and small scale production (e.g. vineyards) and ended with the employment of tens of thousands of hands.
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