s spirit, rather than the will of the individual, that wields the weapon of capitalism. "Thus the capitalism of to-day, which has come to dominate economic life, educates and selects the economic subjects which it needs through a process of economic survival of the fittest." (Weber, 55.) Regardless of who accepts or rejects this economic system imposed by society, those who posess the instinct to survive will have no choice but to accept it. While this religiously-influenced economic system may have once been desirable, Weber now labels it an "iron cage." In essence, the conscience of society has superceded that of the individual. "The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tr

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