The Protestant and Midwestern ideals of profit, thrift, work ethic, pioneer self-reliance, education, democratic rights, and religious tolerance influenced both parties despite their eventual drift into opposition.
We can call it“frugal” because this is not about massive state-level or corporate investment, but it is about developing and delivering affordable technologies and ideas to meet basic needs at scale.
And farmers' livelihoods were restricted by the thrift ordinances of the feudal period.(2) Under these strict thrift ordinances, farmers were prohibited from wearing heat-retaining cotton and therefore limited to wearing hemp cloth.
While most politicians and policy makers fulminate and flounder in their attempt to deal with rising inequality worldwide, a quiet frugal revolution is already addressing the problem right before their eyes.
We should ask ourselves how did each dynasty encourage frugality, the protection of the environment and a ethically and culturally rich, but modest and sustainable culture for its citizens?
In addition, frugality(a lauded feminine virtue before the years of the revolution) likewise became a political statement as households were asked to contribute to the wartime efforts.
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