Yes, but you didnt have status anxiety (i.e. if you can become anything you want if you work hard enough, why aren’t you ““alpha”” yet?) and the prosperity gospel: “you deserve to be poor because you don’t hustle enough at the altar of crapitalism”.
But in Calvinism you couldn’t do anything about it, in the prosperity gospel, it is your fault, because you don’t belive enough, so you should try harder.
We had comparative wealth inequality for thousands to tens of thousands of years before capitalism.
Yes, but you didnt have status anxiety (i.e. if you can become anything you want if you work hard enough, why aren’t you ““alpha”” yet?) and the prosperity gospel: “you deserve to be poor because you don’t hustle enough at the altar of crapitalism”.
You absolutely have Calvinism before capitalism which is what the prosperoty gospel is rooted within
But in Calvinism you couldn’t do anything about it, in the prosperity gospel, it is your fault, because you don’t belive enough, so you should try harder.