persecution caused a labor shortage, people were given a chance to charge more, to move more, for personal efforts to be rewarded, battle of wills, start of capitalism, norms to govern behavior beyond church and aristocracy start of separation between church and state, spirituality is now seen as something you practice privately protestant worked hard to hope that god will reward them at the same time, [[Math's evolution shattered our certainty and source of meaning]] [[Scientific revolution]] cuts you from world because [[Math's evolution shattered our certainty and source of meaning]], [[Protestant reformation cut you from church]], and capitalism grows because of this