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[--Pete]

Hi,

That's not the point.  The point is that industrial notions of time and work arose in the general population because they were forced upon them.  A whole wack of subsistence agriculturalists didn't wake up in the morning and decide "hey, I want to work from 6 in the morning until 7 at night in a factory, repeating the same motions over and over again, and I want my kids to do the same". 
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I don't think that a "wack of subsistence agriculturalists" would have built a country out of a wilderness, and gone on to settle a region that, at the present, is larger than all Europe combined. And, if I remember my history rightly, industrialization *followed* colonialization in all regions, so the lack of fear of working hard appears to have been a characteristic of those colonists before the agency you suggest induced it existed.

Now, for both pragmatic and emotional reasons, I do not assume strict causality, but your argument is too 'relativistic' even for me to swallow. ;)

--Pete